On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Harsh Jain wrote: > Hi, > > git fetch --tags linux-next > > Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data. > > To fetch file changes > git fetch linux-next > > Is required. > > > > On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next > here: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html > and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions: > Fetch linux-next plus tags > $ git fetch linux-next > ... > $ git fetch --tags linux-next > ... > is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the > man page for git-fetch, one reads: > -t, --tags > Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with > the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched. > so would it not be sufficient to run simply: > $ git fetch --tags linux-next > or am i misreading something? > rday that suggests that the man page is slightly misleading, given that it clearly states that "--tags" will fetch tags, "in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched." or is there a different way to read that phrase? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
