From: Stefan Richter Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:26:05 GMT Subject: Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git Message-ID: <4778D1CD.4020001@s5r6.in-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> 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. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== ==-- ===== http://arcgraph.de/sr/