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

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 16:15:41 -0400

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...

	Jeff