Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> 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. > > A while ago the default behavior of git pull was changed to fetch all > tags which point to objects that can be reached from any of the tracked > heads. > > Old behaviour: Option --tags was needed to fetch tags at all. Current > behavior: Option --tags forces to download all tags and the objects > they point to. Option --no-tags works like the old default behavior. > > Readers of Kernel Hackers' Guide to git will most certainly have a > recent enough version of git so that the "download_tags" subsection can > be removed without replacement. All correct. That "A while ago" is quite a while ago, though. IIRC it was added very early in 2006, which is eons ago in git timescale. - 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
