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

Chuck Lever
2005-09-29T21:23:07Z

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Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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...

i just used the instructions at the bottom of your web page to grab new
tags, and it completely wiped all my Stacked Git metadata. (fortunately
i was trying this in a test repository, and it will be simple to recover
the missing files).

so, this is probably something that should have a warning, or maybe you
might consider providing an example that won't wipe out existing files
and directories under .git/ ...

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