"Luck, Tony" (on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:08:22 -0700) wrote: >> That makes sense. But why is the ia64 git tree missing the Linus >> objects and tags in the first place? > >"tags" is a bit ambiguous here, there are two possible things that >you might be talking about when you say "tag" w.r.t. a GIT tree. > >1) A file in .git/refs/tags/ that contains the SHA1 of a git object. Them. >2) A git object of type "tag". > >The files in .git/refs/tags refer to GIT tag objects. Usually a >tag object is a pointer to a commit object ... but they can point >at anything (the v2.6.11 tag object points to a "tree"). > >Things get more complex from here. My kernel.org tree contains none >of the .git/refs/tags files (because I "git push" the heads of the >release/test branches up from my local tree, anf this won't copy any >tags files up ... even though they are all in my local tree from >my "git fetch linus" pulls from Linus). Could you push the refs/tags from your tree as well? Many of the git trees on kernel.org have copies of Linus's tags, which makes it a bit easier to cross reference. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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