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

Jeff Garzik
2005-09-29T20:15:49Z

Dave Jones wrote:
> You 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
>
> Likewise, in the next section, git pull doesn't need an argument
> if pulling from the repo it cloned.

Nope. It intentionally includes the manual rsync because clone/pull
doesn't seem to grab tags. Or at least last time I checked...

Jeff