Shawn Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 2012/1/4 Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> We should also fetch tags that reference to downloaded objects.
>>
>> I do not think this has much merit.
>
> I disagree. ...
No, you don't. Because...
> ... Its useful because cloning a branch immediately after it
> has been tagged for a release should have `git describe` provide back
> the name of the release from the tag (assuming of course no new
> commits were made since the tag).
... this is a natural extension of ...
>> It also is my understanding that the shallow hack is almost always used
>> with a depth of one, not a range, like "git archive | tar xf -", so if
>> anything, I would say a single-branch cloning has much higher priority
>> than following tags.
>
> I think I agree with you on priority of work effort. ...
... this thing, once you have a "single ref only" stuff working. After
Linus announces that he released 3.2, you would do the poor emulation of
"git archive | tar xf -" with something like:
git clone --single=v3.2 --shallow $there linux-3.2
and your "git describe" should fall out as a natural consequence out of
everything else, without the usual "tag following" semantics, no?
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