From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 20:23:25 GMT
Subject: Re: GIT 0.99.7d, and end of week status.
Message-ID: <7vwtl3h936.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <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.