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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-21 15:18:35 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-21 15:18:35 -0800 |
| commit | 73cf1b540e93348929d7a43530fbaec67224b61e (patch) | |
| tree | bce48e3d302ea88d04969bfdc95bfc08182d2589 /Documentation | |
| parent | Merge branch 'nd/index-format-doc' (diff) | |
| parent | fetch --tags: clarify documentation (diff) | |
| download | tgif-73cf1b540e93348929d7a43530fbaec67224b61e.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'jc/fetch-tags-doc'
"git fetch --tags" was explained as if it were "git fetch
--no-no-tags", which is not the case, causing confusion.
* jc/fetch-tags-doc:
fetch --tags: clarify documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index b4d6476ac8..6e98bdf149 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -57,14 +57,11 @@ endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] -t:: --tags:: - Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch - heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at - objects reachable from the branch heads that are being - tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This - flag lets all tags and their associated objects be - downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be - specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See - linkgit:git-config[1]. + This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" + refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched + and stored locally. Because this acts as an explicit + refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the + remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used. --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of |