Re: 2.6.15-rc2 tag

From: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Date: Nov 22, 2005, 20:17 UTC
Message-ID: <20051122201726.GB8738@fieldses.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0511221200340.13959@g5.osdl.org>

On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 12:01:08PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> >
> > I'm still not getting a 2.6.15-rc2 tag with either git-clone or
> > git-fetch --tags.  Any ideas?  Is the problem with me or with the
> > repository?
> 
> Try using 
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
> 
> instead. Does that help?

Yup, thanks. Is there any reason to ever use http to get to your repository?

> I don't understand how http:// works (or doesn't), so..

>From a quick look in ethereal, it seems to be fetching

http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/info/refs

which has a list of tags that doesn't include 2.6.15-rc2. What generates that file? Is it broken?

--b.