Re: Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- Sep 27, 2005, 21:44 UTC
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > 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.
Btw, there are upsides too. Remember how confused people were about your very own v0.99.7a-d releases? They are _not_ on your main path, so those tags wouldn't have been picked up even if Petr did his "pick up tags to stuff you merge automatically" thing.
In fact, if you'd add "--tags" as some kind of automated flag in the .git/remote/ file, then doing a "git fetch origin" could automatically fetch tags by default, _without_ having the mistake of fetching them in general (it probably _does_ make sense to track tags from the origin, since you get the ones the origin had at "clone" time anyway).
Linus