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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index b41d7c1de1..5809aa4eb9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -24,19 +24,22 @@ 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'. -When <refspec> stores the fetched result in remote-tracking branches, -the tags that point at these branches are automatically -followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using -the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are -pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch -those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at -branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. +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 +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. 'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and there is a remotes.<group> entry in the configuration file. (See linkgit:git-config[1]). +When no remote is specified, by default the `origin` remote will be used, +unless there's an upstream branch configured for the current branch. + OPTIONS ------- include::fetch-options.txt[] @@ -80,7 +83,7 @@ Using --recurse-submodules can only fetch new commits in already checked out submodules right now. When e.g. upstream added a new submodule in the just fetched commits of the superproject the submodule itself can not be fetched, making it impossible to check out that submodule later without -having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future git +having to do a fetch again. This is expected to be fixed in a future Git version. SEE ALSO |