Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:51:50 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git |
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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
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