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Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Sep 28, 2006, 04:00 UTC
Message-ID
<20060928040027.GA22489@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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<20060928035855.GD22897@spearce.org>
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:58:55PM -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:
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> If you are fetching a set of commits from a repository you probably
> should be fetching any tags that point at the commits you've fetched.
> They tend to be few compared to the commits, they tend to be small,
> and they tend to be important milestones in the tracked project.
> 
> I think that's why the native Git protocol sends tags for any
> commits that were also sent.  :)
Oh, that's clever. :)
Do we do the right thing for non-git transports?
-Peff
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Message 31 of 39 in “Notes on Using Git with Subprojects”
  1. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinSep 26, 2006
  3. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  4. Johannes SchindelinSep 26, 2006
  5. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  6. Daniel BarkalowSep 26, 2006
  7. Shawn PearceSep 26, 2006
  8. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  9. Martin WaitzSep 27, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  11. Martin WaitzSep 27, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  13. Sven VerdoolaegeSep 27, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2006
  15. Michael S. TsirkinSep 28, 2006
  16. Jeff KingSep 28, 2006
  17. Martin WaitzSep 27, 2006
  18. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  19. A Large Angry SCMSep 27, 2006
  20. Johannes SchindelinSep 27, 2006
  21. Shawn PearceSep 27, 2006
  22. Rogan DawesSep 27, 2006
  23. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  24. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  25. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  26. A Large Angry SCMSep 27, 2006
  27. Jeff KingSep 27, 2006
  28. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  29. Jeff KingSep 28, 2006
  30. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  31. Jeff KingSep 28, 2006
  32. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  33. Shawn PearceSep 28, 2006
  34. Johannes SchindelinSep 28, 2006
  35. Martin WaitzSep 28, 2006
  36. A Large Angry SCMSep 28, 2006
  37. Martin WaitzSep 29, 2006
  38. A Large Angry SCMSep 26, 2006
  39. A Large Angry SCMOct 1, 2006

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