On Sun Jun 28 15, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Harsh Jain wrote:

quoted

Hi,

git fetch --tags linux-next

Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data.

To fetch file changes
git fetch linux-next

Is required.



On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" [off-list ref] wrote:

  perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next
here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions:
 Fetch linux-next plus tags
    $ git fetch linux-next
    ...
    $ git fetch --tags linux-next
    ...
is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the
man page for git-fetch, one reads:
       -t, --tags
           Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with
           the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched.
so would it not be sufficient to run simply:
    $ git fetch --tags linux-next
or am i misreading something?
rday

  that suggests that the man page is slightly misleading, given that
it clearly states that "--tags" will fetch tags, "in addition to
whatever else would otherwise be fetched." or is there a different way
to read that phrase?

rday

It seems to work as described in the manpage for me:

snits at cantor:~/dev/linux=>git fetch -t linus
remote: Counting objects: 888, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (158/158), done.
remote: Total 888 (delta 798), reused 818 (delta 730)
Receiving objects: 100% (888/888), 137.18 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (798/798), completed with 368 local objects.

From git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux

   0890a26..6ac15ba  master     -> linus/master
snits at cantor:~/dev/linux=>git --version
git version 2.4.3.368.g7974889