Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2008, 02:49 UTC
Message-ID: <486849C0.7050703@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0712310349260.2093@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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> On Dec 23 2007 06:13, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Another year, another update!  :)
>>
>> The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates:
>>
>> 	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.

Unfortunately tags are not copied in all cases. To this day, I still have to 'git fetch --tags', generally when pulling from one local repo into another. It's annoying that tags don't follow objects, when pulled.

	Jeff