On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 10:58:13PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

And I suggested that if you want that, then you pull on the TAG. You take 
my modification, you test it, and you see if

	git fetch tag ..repo.. tagname

works.

Hm, that doesn't work right now.  Both:
  git fetch rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/linux-2.6.12.y.git tag v2.6.12.1
or
  git fetch tag rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chrisw/linux-2.6.12.y.git v2.6.12.1

die.  Or am I just trying to take a point you were making about not
pulling all tags (which I can live with, just was not aware it was this
way, and I agree that it does offer up a lot of possiblities of me using
local tags in the future), and taking it literally?

thanks,

greg k-h