Re: stupid git question

Josh Boyer
2011-09-14T20:22:08Z

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com> wrote:
> Subject says a mouthful, but I digress...
>
> Pointed "git" at Linus' github.com repository to pull the "-rc6"
> changes (git pull <repo_url>).  Seems to have worked, except I received
> no updated tags: the latest tag in my local repo copy is "v3.1-rc4".
>
> Is this an expected consequence of doing the initial clone operation
> from one repo, and then pulling updates from another that, in theory, is
> identical to the first?  If so, is there an officially sanctioned method
> of switching repositories that doesn't require blowing away the local
> copy and doing another "git clone"?

Do a git fetch --tags <repo url> and you'll get the tags too.

josh