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Re: GIT 0.99.7d, and end of week status.

From
Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Sep 26, 2005, 20:23 UTC
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<200509260709.12937.alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>
Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk> writes:
> This is where I get puzzled.  Fetch on its own didn't move where "maint" 
> pointed to so doing this checkout would have left me at the v0.99.7c tag (I 
> didn't actually do it - as I was then puzzling over the documentation trying 
> to see what I did wrong)

Because "git fetch origin tag v0.99.7d" fetched only that tag -- git-fetch command is not told to fetch anything else. Most importantly, it did not tell it to update "maint" branch head from the remote. That was why I said that instrucition was busted.

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Message 7 of 23 in “GIT 0.99.7d, and end of week status.”
  1. Junio C HamanoSep 25, 2005
  2. Alan ChandlerSep 25, 2005
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 25, 2005
  4. Alan ChandlerSep 25, 2005
  5. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2005
  6. Alan ChandlerSep 26, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2005
  8. Tom PrinceSep 25, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 25, 2005
  10. Petr BaudisSep 26, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2005
  12. Petr BaudisSep 27, 2005
  13. Matthias UrlichsSep 29, 2005
  14. Junio C HamanoSep 29, 2005
  15. Jon LoeligerSep 26, 2005
  16. Junio C HamanoSep 26, 2005
  17. Fix default pull not to do an unintended Octopus.Junio C Hamano, Sep 27, 2005
  18. Josef WeidendorferSep 27, 2005
  19. Petr BaudisSep 27, 2005
  20. Josef WeidendorferSep 27, 2005
  21. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2005
  22. Petr BaudisSep 27, 2005
  23. Petr BaudisSep 27, 2005

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