Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Sep 24, 2007, 15:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709240840310.3579@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0709232153230.28395@racer.site>

On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > 6) What was the most frustrating moment when working with Git?
> 
> Just the other day, I wanted to fetch a set of changes from a public
> repo into my test repo in order to cherry-pick from them - and it
> automatically fetched all the tags. But, the heck, I don't want them tags
> here, just the commits. I just can't figure out how to avoid the automatic
> fetching of tags.

The way this was *supposed* to work is that if you are not fetching a "tracking branch", it should not fetch any tags.

Maybe this got broken lately?

Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch?

Anyway, I fetch stuff all the time, and if git were to fetch the tags too, I'd be *really* unhappy. So either the people I work with are just good people, or more likely it still works the way it's supposed to work: if you just fetch into FETCH_HEAD (by explicitly giving the remote repository name, and not using tracking branches), it should not fetch tags for you.

			Linus