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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index af12310f75..e319935597 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -175,24 +175,15 @@ It's reasonable to e.g. configure `fetch.pruneTags=true` in run, without making every invocation of `git fetch` without `--prune` an error. -Another special case of `--prune-tags` is that -`refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*` will not be implicitly provided if an URL is -being fetched. I.e.: - ------------------------------------------------- -$ git fetch <url> --prune --prune-tags ------------------------------------------------- - -Will prune no tags, as opposed to: +Pruning tags with `--prune-tags` also works when fetching a URL +instead of a named remote. These will all prune tags not found on +origin: ------------------------------------------------ $ git fetch origin --prune --prune-tags ------------------------------------------------- - -To prune tags given a URL supply the refspec explicitly: - ------------------------------------------------- -$ git fetch <url> --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +$ git fetch origin --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' +$ git fetch <url of origin> --prune --prune-tags +$ git fetch <url of origin> --prune 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' ------------------------------------------------ OUTPUT |