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SubjectRe: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 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.



Unfortunately tags are not copied in all cases. To this day, I still
have to 'git fetch --tags', generally when pulling from one local repo
into another. It's annoying that tags don't follow objects, when pulled.

Jeff




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