Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Linus Torvalds schrieb:
> > 
> > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > > 6) What was the most frustrating moment when working with Git?
> > > Just the other day, I wanted to fetch a set of changes from a public
> > > repo into my test repo in order to cherry-pick from them - and it
> > > automatically fetched all the tags. But, the heck, I don't want them tags
> > > here, just the commits. I just can't figure out how to avoid the
> > > automatic
> > > fetching of tags.
> > 
> > The way this was *supposed* to work is that if you are not fetching a
> > "tracking branch", it should not fetch any tags.
> > 
> > Maybe this got broken lately?
> > 
> > Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch?
> 
> I don't think I fetched a tracking branch. If I do:
> 
>    $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init
>    $ git fetch ../git master:refs/heads/master
> 
> (where ../git is a clone of git.git with a few local changes), I get all the
> tags. Good or bad?

The ":refs/heads/master" part says that you fetch into a tracking branch.

Ciao,
Dscho