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From: "David Ho" <davidkwho@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pulling tags from git.git
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 11:12:38 -0500
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Andreas,

After get it working, I did an experiment where I hard-resetted my
local repo to v1.2.3, git-pruned and removed the v1.2.4 tag.  A git
pull with the git protocol does indeed pick up the tag.

Thanks for explaining what's going on under the hood.  Everything now
makes sense to me!

David

On 3/7/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
> With the git or git+ssh protocol, tags will be autofollowed when you do
> a pull (only signed tags, I think). The auto-following is done by
> detecting tags that are fetched, so when you did a pull using rsync the
> tags weren't auto-followed but you got all the commits. Next, when you
> changed protocol to git:// you already had all the commit objects, so
> there was nothing to auto-detect tags on. Since you're using git:// now
> it should work as advertised in the future though.