From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:05:02 GMT
Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers
Message-ID: <42B9FCAE.1000607@pobox.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0506221623210.11175@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote:
> 
>>Ok, this is annoying.  Is there some reason why git doesn't pull the
>>tags in properly when doing a merge?  Chris and I just hit this when I
>>pulled his 2.6.12.1 tree and and was wondering where the tag went.
> 
> 
> Tags are private in git (the same way branches are), which means that you
> can have a million of your own tags and never disturb anybody else.
> 
> But, like branches, it means that if you want a tag, you need to know the 
> tag you want, and download it the same way you download a branch.

Still -- that's interesting data that no script currently tracks.  You 
gotta fall back to rsync.

	Jeff