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SubjectRe: stupid git question
On 2011.09.14 at 15:19 -0500, Bob Tracy 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"?

git fetch --tags https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git

is what you need.

--
Markus


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