Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Hi people. > > (please keep me in CC) > > Was just busy constructing a tree and noticed a "problem" -- no doubt > caused by me, but help appreciated. > > I clone linus' kernel tree into ./local, then do a > > git checkout -b v22 v2.6.22 > > to get a 2.6.22 branch. I like to have a simple "git pull" while on > this branch pull from the upstream stable tree, so as advised earlier, > I put: > > [branch "v22"] > remote = linux-2.6.22.y > merge = refs/heads/master > [remote "linux-2.6.22.y"] > url = > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.22.y.git > fetch = refs/heads/master > > in ./git/config. "git pull" now indeed works nicely. Perhaps more canonical would be to make the latter fetch as: fetch = refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-2.6.22.y/* > I just noticed now though that this doesn't automatiically fetches > tags as well. I suspect that fetch without remote tracking does not auto-fetch the tags. - To unsubscribe from this list: 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