Re: [howto] Kernel hacker's guide to git, updated

[Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > You wrote..
> >
> > $ git clone 
> > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 
> > linux-2.6
> > $ cd linux-2.6
> > $ rsync -a --verbose --stats --progress \
> >   
> > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ 
> > \
> >   .git/
> >
> > Could be just..
> >
> > $ git clone 
> > rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 
> > linux-2.6
> > $ cd linux-2.6
> > $ git pull
> >
> > Likewise, in the next section, git pull doesn't need an argument
> > if pulling from the repo it cloned.
>
>
>
> Nope.  It intentionally includes the manual rsync because clone/pull 
> doesn't seem to grab tags.  Or at least last time I checked...

i just used the instructions at the bottom of your web page to grab new 
tags, and it completely wiped all my Stacked Git metadata.  (fortunately 
i was trying this in a test repository, and it will be simple to recover 
the missing files).

so, this is probably something that should have a warning, or maybe you 
might consider providing an example that won't wipe out existing files 
and directories under .git/ ...
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