Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

Jeff Garzik
2008-06-30T02:52:13Z

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>> 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.
>
> A while ago the default behavior of git pull was changed to fetch all
> tags which point to objects that can be reached from any of the tracked
> heads.

This does not work in all cases. When I retrieve the latest kernel, it
downloads the tags:

cd /spare/repo/linux-2.6
git pull

but when I pull those changes into another local repo, the tags do -not-
follow the objects:

cd /spare/repo/misc-2.6
git checkout master
git pull ../linux-2.6
git fetch --tags ../linux-2.6 # still required to this day

Regards,

Jeff