# tags "problem"

2 messages from 2007-09-14 to 2007-09-14. Participants: Rene Herman, Junio C Hamano.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/9844

## Rene Herman, 2007-09-14 19:31

Subject: tags "problem"
Message-ID: <46EAE189.5000804@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/46EAE189.5000804%40gmail.com

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Hi people.

(please keep me in CC)

Was just busy constructing a tree and noticed a "problem" -- no doubt caused 
by me, but help appreciated.

I clone linus' kernel tree into ./local, then do a

	git checkout -b v22 v2.6.22

to get a 2.6.22 branch. I like to have a simple "git pull" while on this 
branch pull from the upstream stable tree, so as advised earlier, I put:

[branch "v22"]
         remote = linux-2.6.22.y
         merge = refs/heads/master
[remote "linux-2.6.22.y"]
         url = 
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git
         fetch = refs/heads/master

in ./git/config. "git pull" now indeed works nicely.

I just noticed now though that this doesn't automatiically fetches tags as 
well. That is, no v2.6.22.x tags after that. "git fetch --tags" (or git pull 
--tags directly, I assume) gets them without problem, but I was expecting 
they'd be fetched automatically.

Should they? Can they? Can I put anything in the config so they will?

Rene.

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## Junio C Hamano, 2007-09-14 21:14

Subject: Re: tags "problem"
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In-Reply-To: <46EAE189.5000804@gmail.com>

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Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi people.
>
> (please keep me in CC)
>
> Was just busy constructing a tree and noticed a "problem" -- no doubt
> caused by me, but help appreciated.
>
> I clone linus' kernel tree into ./local, then do a
>
> 	git checkout -b v22 v2.6.22
>
> to get a 2.6.22 branch. I like to have a simple "git pull" while on
> this branch pull from the upstream stable tree, so as advised earlier,
> I put:
>
> [branch "v22"]
>         remote = linux-2.6.22.y
>         merge = refs/heads/master
> [remote "linux-2.6.22.y"]
>         url =
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git
>         fetch = refs/heads/master
>
> in ./git/config. "git pull" now indeed works nicely.

Perhaps more canonical would be to make the latter fetch as:

	fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-2.6.22.y/*

> I just noticed now though that this doesn't automatiically fetches
> tags as well.

I suspect that fetch without remote tracking does not auto-fetch
the tags.

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