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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 5809aa4eb9..78fe9489e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -17,20 +17,22 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories, -along with the objects necessary to complete them. +Fetch branches and/or tags (collectively, "refs") from one or more +other repositories, along with the objects necessary to complete +their histories. -The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored -in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge -operation done by 'git merge'. +The names of refs that are fetched, together with the object names +they point at, are written to `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information +can be used to learn what was fetched. In addition, the remote-tracking +branches are updated (see description on <refspec> below for details). -By default, tags are auto-followed. This means that when fetching -from a remote, any tags on the remote that point to objects that exist -in the local repository are fetched. The effect is to fetch tags that +By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is +also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that point at branches that you are interested in. This default behavior -can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options, by -configuring remote.<name>.tagopt, or by using a refspec that fetches -tags explicitly. +can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options or by +configuring remote.<name>.tagopt. By using a refspec that fetches tags +explicitly, you can fetch tags that do not point into branches you +are interested in as well. 'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and |