From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
To: Bob Tracy <rct@gherkin.frus.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stupid git question
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:22:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110914202242.GA1635@x4.trippels.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110914201912.GA29635@gherkin.frus.com>
On 2011.09.14 at 15:19 -0500, Bob Tracy wrote:
> Subject says a mouthful, but I digress...
>
> Pointed "git" at Linus' github.com repository to pull the "-rc6"
> changes (git pull <repo_url>). Seems to have worked, except I received
> no updated tags: the latest tag in my local repo copy is "v3.1-rc4".
>
> Is this an expected consequence of doing the initial clone operation
> from one repo, and then pulling updates from another that, in theory, is
> identical to the first? If so, is there an officially sanctioned method
> of switching repositories that doesn't require blowing away the local
> copy and doing another "git clone"?
git fetch --tags https://github.com/torvalds/linux.git
is what you need.
--
Markus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-14 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-14 20:19 Bob Tracy
2011-09-14 20:22 ` Josh Boyer
2011-09-14 20:32 ` Bob Tracy
2011-09-14 20:22 ` Markus Trippelsdorf [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-12-12 1:27 Stupid " Valdis Kletnieks
2015-12-12 8:05 ` Jeff Kirsher
2007-04-18 20:08 Stupid GIT question Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-04-18 20:58 ` Andreas Schwab
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