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List:       git
Subject:    Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2
From:       Johannes Sixt <j.sixt () eudaptics ! com>
Date:       2007-09-24 16:15:33
Message-ID: 46F7E2A5.6030202 () eudaptics ! com
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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

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