From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2 Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:44:49 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=us-ascii Cc: msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 24 17:45:42 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 1IZq7m-00061B-Jd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:45:31 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758952AbXIXPp1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:45:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756235AbXIXPp1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:45:27 -0400 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:55268 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756103AbXIXPp0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:45:26 -0400 Received: from imap1.linux-foundation.org (imap1.linux-foundation.org [207.189.120.55]) by smtp2.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l8OFiniU027648 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:44:51 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by imap1.linux-foundation.org (8.13.5.20060308/8.13.5/Debian-3ubuntu1.1) with ESMTP id l8OFinoP004445; Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:44:49 -0700 In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.739 required=5 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0-osdl_revision__1.39__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: lf$Revision: 1.185 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 207.189.120.14 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? Anyway, I fetch stuff all the time, and if git were to fetch the tags too, I'd be *really* unhappy. So either the people I work with are just good people, or more likely it still works the way it's supposed to work: if you just fetch into FETCH_HEAD (by explicitly giving the remote repository name, and not using tracking branches), it should not fetch tags for you. Linus