From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 22:11:29 GMT
Subject: Re: Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects
Message-ID: <7vll1iyxda.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509271414000.3308@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Yes, it would work, but I really think that there's no downside to just 
> having a
>
> 	git fetch --tags <dest>
>
> since that's just a few lines of trivial code, with no special cases.

I do not oppose that idea.  I was just trying to point out that
'git fetch --tags' does not solve what Pasky wants to do -- in
his ideal world, people track branches, and tags that refer to
objects that are on those tracked branches are automatically
fetched; at the same time tags irrelevant to the tracked
branches are not fetched at all.  'git fetch --tags' would
require the user to slurp in objects on branches she is not
interested in.