Jan Harkes <jaharkes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:42:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> >> git pull git://git.kernel.org/.... >> >> and the automatic tag following kicks in, it will first have fetched the >> objects once, and then when it tries to fetch the tag objects, it will >> fetch the objects it already fetched _again_ (plus the tags), because it >> will do the same object pull, but the temporary branch (to be merged) will >> never have been written as a branch head. > > Isn't this easily avoided by fetching the tags first? I do not think so. Notice how the tag following code uses cat-file to determine if the main fetch likely has slurped the object they point at. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html