Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

Jan Engelhardt
2007-12-31T02:50:34Z

On Dec 23 2007 06:13, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Another year, another update! :)
>
> The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates:
>
> http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
>

It says

"""Don't forget to download tags from time to time.

git pull only downloads sha1-indexed object data, and the requested
remote head. This misses updates to the .git/refs/tags/ and
.git/refs/heads/ directories. For tags, run git fetch --tags $URL."""

But when I do git pull on a simple tracking tree (e.g. git-clone
torvalds/linux-2.6.git; git pull;) it automatically grabs new tags.