My workflow looks like this # Get mainline Git tree $ git clone $LINUS_GIT_URL # Checkout latest mainline (rc) tag (aka -next's "origin" commit-id) $ git checkout -b Linux-v3.19-rc3 v3.19-rc3 # Base to pull in current -next $ git checkout -b Linux-next-20150107 # Pull in stuff from next-20150107 $ git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git tags/next-20150107 Unfortunately, this is not getting the git-tag "next-20150107" which I fix by... $ git tag next-20150107 Do you happen to know how to do that more elegant? ( I wanted to avoid to run... git pull $git_url --tags ... which gets all -next tags. ) Thanks. - Sedat - -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html