Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git
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- Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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- Dec 31, 2007, 11:26 UTC
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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>> http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html > > It says > > """Don't forget to download tags from time to time. > > git pull only downloads sha1-indexed object data, and the requested > remote head. This misses updates to the .git/refs/tags/ and > .git/refs/heads/ directories. For tags, run git fetch --tags $URL.""" > > But when I do git pull on a simple tracking tree (e.g. git-clone > torvalds/linux-2.6.git; git pull;) it automatically grabs new tags.
A while ago the default behavior of git pull was changed to fetch all tags which point to objects that can be reached from any of the tracked heads.
Old behaviour: Option --tags was needed to fetch tags at all. Current behavior: Option --tags forces to download all tags and the objects they point to. Option --no-tags works like the old default behavior.
Readers of Kernel Hackers' Guide to git will most certainly have a recent enough version of git so that the "download_tags" subsection can be removed without replacement.
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