From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262560AbVFVXNl (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:13:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262579AbVFVXMs (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:12:48 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:60300 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262572AbVFVXJS (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:09:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:09:05 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Jeff Garzik , torvalds@osdl.org Cc: Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers Message-ID: <20050622230905.GA7873@kroah.com> References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 06:24:54PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > 10) don't forget to download tags from time to time. > > git-pull-script only downloads sha1-indexed object data, and the > requested remote head. This misses updates to the .git/refs/tags/ and > .git/refs/heads directories. It is advisable to update your kernel .git > directories periodically with a full rsync command, to make sure you got > everything: > > $ cd linux-2.6 > $ rsync -a --delete --verbose --stats --progress \ > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ > \ <- word-wrapped backslash; sigh > .git/ Ok, this is annoying. Is there some reason why git doesn't pull the tags in properly when doing a merge? Chris and I just hit this when I pulled his 2.6.12.1 tree and and was wondering where the tag went. thanks, greg k-h