Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

[Jeff Garzik]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > 	http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html
> > It says
> >
> > """Don't forget to download tags from time to time.
> >
> > git pull only downloads sha1-indexed object data, and the requested
> > remote head. This misses updates to the .git/refs/tags/ and
> > .git/refs/heads/ directories. For tags, run git fetch --tags $URL."""
> >
> > But when I do git pull on a simple tracking tree (e.g. git-clone
> > torvalds/linux-2.6.git; git pull;) it automatically grabs new tags.
>
> A while ago the default behavior of git pull was changed to fetch all
> tags which point to objects that can be reached from any of the tracked
> heads.


This does not work in all cases.  When I retrieve the latest kernel, it 
downloads the tags:

	cd /spare/repo/linux-2.6
	git pull

but when I pull those changes into another local repo, the tags do -not- 
follow the objects:

	cd /spare/repo/misc-2.6
	git checkout master
	git pull ../linux-2.6
	git fetch --tags ../linux-2.6	# still required to this day

Regards,

	Jeff



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