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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-22 20:37:22 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-22 20:37:22 -0800 |
| commit | 21b340181bc13fd83d25f3b5230f59b97c274cec (patch) | |
| tree | 88c45c73cce92c07d8d981e4dc1856197439e53e | |
| parent | df54d595662411ad8eeaa09e80c781c82943b452 (diff) | |
| parent | f0cb2f137c6e399bab1be92c7cc8e3e08bd36c4f (diff) | |
| download | git-21b340181bc13fd83d25f3b5230f59b97c274cec.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'jc/fetch-tags-doc' into maint
* jc/fetch-tags-doc:
fetch --tags: clarify 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 |