From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:15:33 GMT
Subject: Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2
Message-ID: <46F7E2A5.6030202@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709240840310.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>

Linus Torvalds schrieb:
> 
> 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