Subject: Re: Missing next-$date git-tag when pulled-in linux-next.git on top of linus.git

From: Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 21:24:39 +1100

Hi Sedat,

On Wed, 7 Jan 2015 09:24:57 +0100 Sedat Dilek <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
> My workflow looks like this
> 
> # Get mainline Git tree
> $ git clone $LINUS_GIT_URL
> 
> # Checkout latest mainline (rc) tag (aka -next's "origin" commit-id)
> $ git checkout -b Linux-v3.19-rc3 v3.19-rc3
> 
> # Base to pull in current -next
> $ git checkout -b Linux-next-20150107
> 
> # Pull in stuff from next-20150107
> $ git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git
> tags/next-20150107

Just do

$ git pull git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git master

That should also fetch the next- tag.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    [email-masked]