On Dec 23 2007 06:13, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Another year, another update! :) > > The kernel hacker's guide to git has received some updates: > > http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html > It says """Don't forget to download tags from time to time. git pull only downloads sha1-indexed object data, and the requested remote head. This misses updates to the .git/refs/tags/ and .git/refs/heads/ directories. For tags, run git fetch --tags $URL.""" But when I do git pull on a simple tracking tree (e.g. git-clone torvalds/linux-2.6.git; git pull;) it automatically grabs new 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