working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

[Harsh Jain]

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 at 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
>
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