From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261486AbVFVXZO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:25:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262416AbVFVXXk (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:23:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:41962 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261486AbVFVXXN (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:23:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:25:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Greg KH cc: Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel , Git Mailing List Subject: Re: Updated git HOWTO for kernel hackers In-Reply-To: <20050622230905.GA7873@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <42B9E536.60704@pobox.com> <20050622230905.GA7873@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > Ok, this is annoying. Is there some reason why git doesn't pull the > tags in properly when doing a merge? Chris and I just hit this when I > pulled his 2.6.12.1 tree and and was wondering where the tag went. Tags are private in git (the same way branches are), which means that you can have a million of your own tags and never disturb anybody else. 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. Linus