Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects

Jeff King [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:58:55PM -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:

quoted

If you are fetching a set of commits from a repository you probably
should be fetching any tags that point at the commits you've fetched.
They tend to be few compared to the commits, they tend to be small,
and they tend to be important milestones in the tracked project.

I think that's why the native Git protocol sends tags for any
commits that were also sent.  :)

Oh, that's clever. :)

Do we do the right thing for non-git transports?

Yes, I think we do.

Only its not quite as clever as the HTTP/FTP commit walker first
needs to get a list of available refs (which includes tag and
tag^{}) and compares each obtained commit to the ^{} entries.
If there's a match it gets the tag.

And rsync being as dumb as it is should be fetching everything. :)

-- 
Shawn.