<html><head></head><body>Hi,<br>
<br>
git fetch --tags linux-next<br>
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Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data.<br>
<br>
To fetch file changes <br>
git fetch linux-next<br>
<br>
Is required.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br /> perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next<br />here:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html">https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html</a><br /><br />and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions:<br /><br /> Fetch linux-next plus tags<br /><br /> $ git fetch linux-next<br /> ...<br /> $ git fetch --tags linux-next<br /> ...<br /><br />is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the<br />man page for git-fetch, one reads:<br /><br /> -t, --tags<br /> Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with<br /> the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched.<br /><br />so would it not be sufficient to run simply:<br /><br /> $ git fetch --tags linux-next<br /><br />or am i misreading something?<br /><br />rday<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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