From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:15:33 +0200 Message-ID: <46F7E2A5.6030202@eudaptics.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Linus Torvalds X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 24 18:16:06 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IZqb6-0000cB-Lc for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:15:49 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757268AbXIXQPl (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:15:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757504AbXIXQPl (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:15:41 -0400 Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at ([212.33.55.23]:5373 "EHLO lilzmailso01.liwest.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756411AbXIXQPk (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:15:40 -0400 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160] helo=linz.eudaptics.com) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtpa (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1IZqau-0008Vu-TA; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:15:37 +0200 Received: from [192.168.1.42] (J6T.linz.viscovery [192.168.1.42]) by linz.eudaptics.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 159644E4; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:15:34 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Score: 1.3 (+) X-Spam-Report: ALL_TRUSTED=-1.8, AWL=-0.397, BAYES_99=3.5 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds schrieb: > > On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> 6) What was the most frustrating moment when working with Git? >> Just the other day, I wanted to fetch a set of changes from a public >> repo into my test repo in order to cherry-pick from them - and it >> automatically fetched all the tags. But, the heck, I don't want them tags >> here, just the commits. I just can't figure out how to avoid the automatic >> fetching of tags. > > The way this was *supposed* to work is that if you are not fetching a > "tracking branch", it should not fetch any tags. > > Maybe this got broken lately? > > Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch? I don't think I fetched a tracking branch. If I do: $ mkdir foo && cd foo && git init $ git fetch ../git master:refs/heads/master (where ../git is a clone of git.git with a few local changes), I get all the tags. Good or bad? -- Hannes