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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-17 11:31:06 +0900 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-10-18 05:59:34 +0900 |
| commit | 83558a412afa21e5eef1d97705204b8fb2c7a6f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 8ee6bb4dd338123ad2ae04ee961aca7a5e6343da | |
| parent | Merge branch 'fm/fetch-raw-sha1' (diff) | |
| download | tgif-83558a412afa21e5eef1d97705204b8fb2c7a6f2.tar.xz | |
fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
Since a9d34933 ("Merge branch 'fm/fetch-raw-sha1'", 2015-06-01) we
allow to fetch by an object name when the other side accepts such a
request, but we never updated the documentation to match.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index 1ebbf1d738..c579793af5 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ ifdef::git-pull[] endif::git-pull[] + The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus -`+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed +`+`, followed by the source <src>, followed by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>. -The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. +The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. <src> is +typically a ref, but it can also be a fully spelled hex object +name. + `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`; it requests fetching everything up to the given tag. |