Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:47:36 -0400

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>>But, like branches, it means that if you want a tag, you need to know the 
>>>tag you want, and download it the same way you download a branch.
>>
>>Still -- that's interesting data that no script currently tracks.  You 
>>gotta fall back to rsync.
> 
> 
> Something like
> 
> 	git-ssh/http-pull -w tags/<tagname> tags/<tagname> <url>
> 
> _should_ hopefully work now (and the "-a" flag should mean that you also 
> get all the objects needed for the tag).

The problem isn't pulling tags, the problem is that nothing 
automatically downloads the 41-byte tag files themselves.  Pulling 
linux-2.6.git after the 2.6.12 release did not cause refs/tags/v2.6.12 
to be downloaded.

With BK, tags came with each pull.  With git, you have to go "outside 
the system" (rsync) just get the new tags.

	Jeff