From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261843AbVFWAHH (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:07:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261839AbVFWAGt (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:06:49 -0400 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:15537 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261843AbVFWAFJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:05:09 -0400 Message-ID: <42B9FCAE.1000607@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:05:02 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Greg KH , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622230905.GA7873@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote: > >>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. > > > Tags are private in git (the same way branches are), which means that you > can have a million of your own tags and never disturb anybody else. > > But, like branches, it means that if you want a tag, you need to know the > tag you want, and download it the same way you download a branch. Still -- that's interesting data that no script currently tracks. You gotta fall back to rsync. Jeff