On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Harsh Jain wrote:
Hi,
git fetch --tags linux-next
Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data.
To fetch file changes git fetch linux-next
Is required.
On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions: Fetch linux-next plus tags $ git fetch linux-next ... $ git fetch --tags linux-next ... is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the man page for git-fetch, one reads: -t, --tags Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched. so would it not be sufficient to run simply: $ git fetch --tags linux-next or am i misreading something? rday
that suggests that the man page is slightly misleading, given that it clearly states that "--tags" will fetch tags, "in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched." or is there a different way to read that phrase? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================