Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Jun 30, 2008, 02:51 UTC
Message-ID: <48684A46.7040802@garzik.org>
In-Reply-To: <4778D1CD.4020001@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

Stefan Richter wrote:

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> 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.

This does not work in all cases. When I retrieve the latest kernel, it downloads the tags:

	cd /spare/repo/linux-2.6
	git pull

but when I pull those changes into another local repo, the tags do -not- follow the objects:

	cd /spare/repo/misc-2.6
	git checkout master
	git pull ../linux-2.6
	git fetch --tags ../linux-2.6	# still required to this day

Regards,

	Jeff