From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:27:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48687CDE.5010502@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48684A46.7040802@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
>> A while ago the default behavior of git pull was changed to fetch all
>> tags which point to objects that can be reached from any of the tracked
>> heads.
>
>
> This does not work in all cases. When I retrieve the latest kernel, it
> downloads the tags:
>
> cd /spare/repo/linux-2.6
> git pull
>
> but when I pull those changes into another local repo, the tags do -not-
> follow the objects:
>
> cd /spare/repo/misc-2.6
> git checkout master
> git pull ../linux-2.6
> git fetch --tags ../linux-2.6 # still required to this day
I guess this is because /spare/repo/misc-2.6 does not have branches of
/spare/repo/linux-2.6 configured as remote (tracking) branches.
--
Stefan Richter
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http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-30 6:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 3:04 Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git Jeff Garzik
2006-12-21 3:21 ` Jay Cliburn
2006-12-21 7:04 ` Martin Langhoff
2006-12-21 7:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-21 7:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-21 11:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-21 5:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-12-21 5:53 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-12-21 11:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-21 21:17 ` Nigel Cunningham
2006-12-21 13:53 ` Francois Romieu
2006-12-21 20:40 ` Guennadi Liakhovetski
2006-12-21 20:46 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-22 8:50 ` Jesper Juhl
2006-12-24 18:07 ` Horst H. von Brand
2007-12-23 11:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-23 12:08 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 12:13 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-23 12:20 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 13:05 ` Dieter Ries
2007-12-23 17:23 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 20:14 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-24 14:19 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-12-23 12:25 ` WANG Cong
2007-12-24 12:50 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-12-25 13:08 ` Salikh Zakirov
2007-12-31 2:50 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-31 11:26 ` Stefan Richter
2007-12-31 17:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-30 2:51 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-06-30 6:27 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2008-06-30 2:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-03 6:26 ` Christian Couder
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-21 12:24 Francis Moreau
2006-12-21 18:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-22 1:23 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-22 4:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-22 22:20 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-22 22:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-22 22:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 23:31 ` Carl Worth
2006-12-22 23:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2006-12-22 9:35 ` Francis Moreau
2006-12-22 10:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-22 20:34 ` Francis Moreau
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