Jeff Garzik wrote:

Dave Jones wrote:

quoted

You wrote..

$ git clone 
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 
linux-2.6
$ cd linux-2.6
$ rsync -a --verbose --stats --progress \
  
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git/ 
\
  .git/

Could be just..

$ git clone 
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git 
linux-2.6
$ cd linux-2.6
$ git pull

Likewise, in the next section, git pull doesn't need an argument
if pulling from the repo it cloned.

Nope.  It intentionally includes the manual rsync because clone/pull 
doesn't seem to grab tags.  Or at least last time I checked...

i just used the instructions at the bottom of your web page to grab new 
tags, and it completely wiped all my Stacked Git metadata.  (fortunately 
i was trying this in a test repository, and it will be simple to recover 
the missing files).

so, this is probably something that should have a warning, or maybe you 
might consider providing an example that won't wipe out existing files 
and directories under .git/ ...