From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:44:08 GMT
Subject: Re: Tags not transferred with git pull?
Message-ID: <20051107104408.GA7283@harddisk-recovery.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vll04tdsz.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 11:26:20AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Sorry for the confusion.  The barebone Porcelainish shipped with
> git-core does not fetch and store tags unconditionally under the
> same name as the remote has without being told; you need to
> explicitly tell it to 'git fetch --tags'.
> 
> What was added recently was a low level support for Cogito to
> implement the automatic tracking.  This is supposed to (I do not
> offhand know if the Cogito side has been updated to do so
> already) work a bit differently.  Instead of grabbing all tags
> and all objects reachable from them, as you fetch commits from
> the remote, the automatic tracking fetches tags that point at
> them.  What this means is that the tags on the remote branch you
> are tracking would be fetched automatically but tags on a remote
> branch you are not interested in are not.

Thanks for the explanation.


Erik

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