Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:07:29PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

 > > $ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
 > > $ cd linux-2.6
 > > $ rsync -a --verbose --stats --progress \
 > >   rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ \
 > >   .git/
 > > 
 > > Could be just..
 > > 
 > > $ git clone rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git linux-2.6
 > > $ cd linux-2.6
 > > $ git pull
 > 
 > That is not actually the same.  "git pull" for example will not download 
 > Linus' tags whilst the rsync would get everything.

Ah. I didn't know this. Thanks.
Hmm, it'd be nice to have a shorthand 'not have to type the url, pull everything'.
Something like 'git pull all'.

		Dave

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