From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933261Ab1INUWp (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:22:45 -0400 Received: from ud10.udmedia.de ([194.117.254.50]:39267 "EHLO mail.ud10.udmedia.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933142Ab1INUWo (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:22:44 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:22:42 +0200 From: Markus Trippelsdorf To: Bob Tracy Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: stupid git question Message-ID: <20110914202242.GA1635@x4.trippels.de> References: <20110914201912.GA29635@gherkin.frus.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110914201912.GA29635@gherkin.frus.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 ). 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