On Sun Jun 28 15, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > 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 > It seems to work as described in the manpage for me: snits@cantor:~/dev/linux=>git fetch -t linus remote: Counting objects: 888, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (158/158), done. remote: Total 888 (delta 798), reused 818 (delta 730) Receiving objects: 100% (888/888), 137.18 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (798/798), completed with 368 local objects. >From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux 0890a26..6ac15ba master -> linus/master snits@cantor:~/dev/linux=>git --version git version 2.4.3.368.g7974889 _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
