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Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

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JGJeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Date
Jun 23, 2005, 03:06 UTC
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<42BA271F.6080505@pobox.com>
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0506221929430.11175@ppc970.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> What I'm saying is that for a tagged release, that really translates to
> "please pull tag xyz from repo abc" and the tools like git-ssh-pull will 
> just do the right thing: they'll pull the tag itself _and_ they'll pull 
> the objects it points to.
Yes, everything does the right there here.
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> Of course, right now "git fetch" is hardcoded to always write FETCH_HEAD 
> (not the tag name), but I'm saying ythat _literally_ you can do this 
> already:
> 
> 	git fetch repo-name tags/xyz &&
> 		( cat .git/FETCH_HEAD > .git/tags/xyz )
> 
> and it should do exactly what you want. Hmm?

No, not at all. This sub-thread is all about tags/ dir updates. Users should be able to do

	git pull-more rsync://...
and get ALL of .git/refs/tags/* that have appeared since their last update.

Concrete example: I have a git tree on local disk. I need to find out where, between 2.6.12-rc1 and 2.6.12, a driver broke. This requires that I have -ALL- linux-2.6.git/refs/tags on disk already, so that I can bounce quickly and easily between tags.

It is valuable to have a local copy of -all- tags, -before- you need them. That is why people like me and GregKH use rsync directly. We want EVERYTHING in the kernel.org linux-2.6.git tree, not just what we know we need right now.

	Jeff
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  45. Mercurial vs Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackersMatt Mackall, Jun 23, 2005
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  48. Petr BaudisJun 28, 2005
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  72. Matt MackallJun 24, 2005
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  80. Linus TorvaldsJun 24, 2005
  81. John W. LinvilleJun 24, 2005
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  83. Daniel BarkalowJun 24, 2005
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  85. Joel BeckerJun 24, 2005
  86. Kyle MoffettJun 24, 2005
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  88. Kyle MoffettJun 27, 2005
  89. Matt MackallJun 27, 2005
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  91. Matt MackallJun 27, 2005
  92. Ed TomlinsonJun 27, 2005
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