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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-13 16:19:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2012-12-13 16:19:45 -0800 |
| commit | f0cb2f137c6e399bab1be92c7cc8e3e08bd36c4f (patch) | |
| tree | a84fd94873f76f2cb4db4d2cf62a3e956e52b984 | |
| parent | bdd478d620034dc6517aea940f5dc6b88f780c04 (diff) | |
| download | git-f0cb2f137c6e399bab1be92c7cc8e3e08bd36c4f.tar.gz | |
fetch --tags: clarify documentation
Explain that --tags is just like another explicit refspec on the
command line and as such overrides the default refspecs configured
via the remote.$name.fetch variable.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 13 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index b4d6476ac8..6e98bdf149 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -57,14 +57,11 @@ endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] -t:: --tags:: - Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch - heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at - objects reachable from the branch heads that are being - tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This - flag lets all tags and their associated objects be - downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be - specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See - linkgit:git-config[1]. + This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" + refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched + and stored locally. Because this acts as an explicit + refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the + remote.$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 |