Linus Torvalds wrote:
What I'm saying is that for a tagged release, that really translates to
"please pull tag xyz from repo abc" and the tools like git-ssh-pull will
just do the right thing: they'll pull the tag itself _and_ they'll pull
the objects it points to.
Yes, everything does the right there here.
Of course, right now "git fetch" is hardcoded to always write FETCH_HEAD
(not the tag name), but I'm saying ythat _literally_ you can do this
already:
git fetch repo-name tags/xyz &&
( cat .git/FETCH_HEAD > .git/tags/xyz )
and it should do exactly what you want. Hmm?
No, not at all. This sub-thread is all about tags/ dir updates. Users
should be able to do
git pull-more rsync://...
and get ALL of .git/refs/tags/* that have appeared since their last update.
Concrete example: I have a git tree on local disk. I need to find out
where, between 2.6.12-rc1 and 2.6.12, a driver broke. This requires
that I have -ALL- linux-2.6.git/refs/tags on disk already, so that I can
bounce quickly and easily between tags.
It is valuable to have a local copy of -all- tags, -before- you need
them. That is why people like me and GregKH use rsync directly. We
want EVERYTHING in the kernel.org linux-2.6.git tree, not just what we
know we need right now.
Jeff
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