Re: cg-clone not fetching all tags?

From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Apr 29, 2006, 21:42 UTC
Message-ID: <200604292342.16306.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <20060429170542.GJ27689@pasky.or.cz>

On Saturday 29 April 2006 19:05, Petr Baudis wrote:

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>   Hi,
>
> Dear diary, on Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:00:42PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> said that...
>
> > it seems that "cg-clone" does not fetch all tags any more - only  the
> > most  recent ones (modiufied in the last N days?) seem to be fetched?
> > [Eventually the "N days"  might  correspond  to  "changing  tools  to
> > version X", but I have no way to find out.]
> >
> > This happens only when using HTTP; using ssh  or  rsync  works  fine.
> > Also,  if  we follow the "cg-clone" by a "git-fetch -t" command, this
> > will load the missing tags.
> >
> > Is this intentional, or am I doing anything wrong?
> >
> > [For testing, try "cg-clone http://www.denx.de/git/u-boot.git"]
>
>   you need to run git-update-server-info every time you add or update a
> tag (or best every time you push). See the NOTES section of
> cg-admin-setuprepo documentation for details on how to set it up to be
> called automagically at every push.

There are two types of tags: They can point to
1. a commit object
2. a proper tag object (which in turn references the commit)

git-update-server-info seems to generate info only for case 2, and so are the only ones that http can fetch.

-- Hannes