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Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2

From
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date
Sep 24, 2007, 16:15 UTC
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<46F7E2A5.6030202@eudaptics.com>
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<alpine.LFD.0.999.0709240840310.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Linus Torvalds schrieb:
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> 
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>> 6) What was the most frustrating moment when working with Git?
>> Just the other day, I wanted to fetch a set of changes from a public
>> repo into my test repo in order to cherry-pick from them - and it
>> automatically fetched all the tags. But, the heck, I don't want them tags
>> here, just the commits. I just can't figure out how to avoid the automatic
>> fetching of tags.
> 
> The way this was *supposed* to work is that if you are not fetching a 
> "tracking branch", it should not fetch any tags.
> 
> Maybe this got broken lately?
> 
> Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch?
I don't think I fetched a tracking branch. If I do:
    $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init
    $ git fetch ../git master:refs/heads/master

(where ../git is a clone of git.git with a few local changes), I get all the tags. Good or bad?

-- Hannes
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Message 4 of 6 in “The msysGit Herald, issue 2”
  1. Johannes SchindelinSep 23, 2007
  2. Shawn O. PearceSep 24, 2007
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 24, 2007
  4. Johannes SixtSep 24, 2007
  5. Johannes SchindelinSep 24, 2007
  6. Junio C HamanoSep 24, 2007

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