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Re: Pulling tags from git.git

From
David Ho <davidkwho@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 7, 2006, 16:12 UTC
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<4dd15d180603070812u16fbcf58m4afea92293dce370@mail.gmail.com>
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Andreas,

After get it working, I did an experiment where I hard-resetted my local repo to v1.2.3, git-pruned and removed the v1.2.4 tag. A git pull with the git protocol does indeed pick up the tag.

Thanks for explaining what's going on under the hood. Everything now makes sense to me!

David
On 3/7/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> wrote:
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> With the git or git+ssh protocol, tags will be autofollowed when you do
> a pull (only signed tags, I think). The auto-following is done by
> detecting tags that are fetched, so when you did a pull using rsync the
> tags weren't auto-followed but you got all the commits. Next, when you
> changed protocol to git:// you already had all the commit objects, so
> there was nothing to auto-detect tags on. Since you're using git:// now
> it should work as advertised in the future though.
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  6. A Large Angry SCMMar 7, 2006
  7. Andreas EricssonMar 7, 2006
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  9. A Large Angry SCMMar 8, 2006
  10. Andreas EricssonMar 8, 2006
  11. Florian WeimerMar 9, 2006
  12. Andreas EricssonMar 9, 2006
  13. Florian WeimerMar 20, 2006
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 20, 2006
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