Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

Dave Jones
2005-09-29T20:11:45Z

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:07:29PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> > $ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
> > $ cd linux-2.6
> > $ rsync -a --verbose --stats --progress \
> > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ \
> > .git/
> >
> > Could be just..
> >
> > $ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
> > $ cd linux-2.6
> > $ git pull
>
> That is not actually the same. "git pull" for example will not download
> Linus' tags whilst the rsync would get everything.

Ah. I didn't know this. Thanks.
Hmm, it'd be nice to have a shorthand 'not have to type the url, pull everything'.
Something like 'git pull all'.

Dave