working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next
here:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html

and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions:

 Fetch linux-next plus tags

    $ git fetch linux-next
    ...
    $ git fetch --tags linux-next
    ...

is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the
man page for git-fetch, one reads:

       -t, --tags
           Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with
           the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched.

so would it not be sufficient to run simply:

    $ git fetch --tags linux-next

or am i misreading something?

rday

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working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

[Harsh Jain]

Hi,

git fetch --tags linux-next

Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data.

To fetch file changes 
git fetch linux-next

Is required.



On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next
>here:
>
>https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
>
>and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions:
>
> Fetch linux-next plus tags
>
>    $ git fetch linux-next
>    ...
>    $ git fetch --tags linux-next
>    ...
>
>is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the
>man page for git-fetch, one reads:
>
>       -t, --tags
>Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/*
>into local tags with
>the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be
>fetched.
>
>so would it not be sufficient to run simply:
>
>    $ git fetch --tags linux-next
>
>or am i misreading something?
>
>rday
>
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working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Harsh Jain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> git fetch --tags linux-next
>
> Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data.
>
> To fetch file changes
> git fetch linux-next
>
> Is required.
>
>
>
> On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next
> here:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
> and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions:
>  Fetch linux-next plus tags
>     $ git fetch linux-next
>     ...
>     $ git fetch --tags linux-next
>     ...
> is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the
> man page for git-fetch, one reads:
>        -t, --tags
>            Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with
>            the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched.
> so would it not be sufficient to run simply:
>     $ git fetch --tags linux-next
> or am i misreading something?
> rday

  that suggests that the man page is slightly misleading, given that
it clearly states that "--tags" will fetch tags, "in addition to
whatever else would otherwise be fetched." or is there a different way
to read that phrase?

rday

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working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

[Jerry Snitselaar]

On Sun Jun 28 15, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Harsh Jain wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > git fetch --tags linux-next
> >
> > Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data.
> >
> > To fetch file changes
> > git fetch linux-next
> >
> > Is required.
> >
> >
> >
> > On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >   perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next
> > here:
> > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
> > and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions:
> >  Fetch linux-next plus tags
> >     $ git fetch linux-next
> >     ...
> >     $ git fetch --tags linux-next
> >     ...
> > is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the
> > man page for git-fetch, one reads:
> >        -t, --tags
> >            Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with
> >            the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched.
> > so would it not be sufficient to run simply:
> >     $ git fetch --tags linux-next
> > or am i misreading something?
> > rday
> 
>   that suggests that the man page is slightly misleading, given that
> it clearly states that "--tags" will fetch tags, "in addition to
> whatever else would otherwise be fetched." or is there a different way
> to read that phrase?
> 
> rday
> 

It seems to work as described in the manpage for me:

snits at cantor:~/dev/linux=>git fetch -t linus
remote: Counting objects: 888, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (158/158), done.
remote: Total 888 (delta 798), reused 818 (delta 730)
Receiving objects: 100% (888/888), 137.18 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (798/798), completed with 368 local objects.
>From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
   0890a26..6ac15ba  master     -> linus/master
snits at cantor:~/dev/linux=>git --version
git version 2.4.3.368.g7974889