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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 13 |
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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 |