Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Linus Torvalds schrieb: > >> ... >> Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch? > > I don't think I fetched a tracking branch. If I do: > > $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init > $ git fetch ../git master:refs/heads/master > > (where ../git is a clone of git.git with a few local changes), I get > all the tags. Good or bad? That's exactly Linus meant "fetching a tracking branch". Your refspec has non-empty string on the RHS of the colon. $ git fetch ../git master is the form without tracking. IOW, not storing into your refs namespace. - 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
