Re: Updated Kernel Hacker's guide to git

[Stefan Richter]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Stefan Richter wrote:
> > 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

I guess this is because /spare/repo/misc-2.6 does not have branches of 
/spare/repo/linux-2.6 configured as remote (tracking) branches.
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