Re: tags "problem"

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 14, 2007, 21:14 UTC
Message-ID: <7vfy1h9cgc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <46EAE189.5000804@gmail.com>

Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> writes:

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> Hi people.
>
> (please keep me in CC)
>
> Was just busy constructing a tree and noticed a "problem" -- no doubt
> caused by me, but help appreciated.
>
> I clone linus' kernel tree into ./local, then do a
>
> 	git checkout -b v22 v2.6.22
>
> to get a 2.6.22 branch. I like to have a simple "git pull" while on
> this branch pull from the upstream stable tree, so as advised earlier,
> I put:
>
> [branch "v22"]
>         remote = linux-2.6.22.y
>         merge = refs/heads/master
> [remote "linux-2.6.22.y"]
>         url =
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git
>         fetch = refs/heads/master
>
> in ./git/config. "git pull" now indeed works nicely.

Perhaps more canonical would be to make the latter fetch as:

	fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-2.6.22.y/*

> I just noticed now though that this doesn't automatiically fetches
> tags as well.

I suspect that fetch without remote tracking does not auto-fetch the tags.