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| author | Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> | 2013-10-30 06:32:59 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2013-10-30 14:16:36 -0700 |
| commit | c5a84e92a2fe9e8748e32341c344d7a6c0f52a50 (patch) | |
| tree | dc3431137e2495548a7c03e1e4b52c0c61ec9d17 /Documentation/fetch-options.txt | |
| parent | 0281c930f17042473e973f39810c8f7c93955d7d (diff) | |
| download | git-c5a84e92a2fe9e8748e32341c344d7a6c0f52a50.tar.gz | |
fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuff
Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to
specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line;
in particular, it caused the remote.<name>.refspec configuration to be
ignored.
But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other
references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in
addition to* other references. So change the semantics of this option
to do the latter.
If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to
specifying an explicit refspec:
git fetch <remote> 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous
about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior. Commit
f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation
made the documentation match the old behavior. This commit changes
the documentation to match the new behavior.
Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/fetch-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index ba1fe49582..921f6be8d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -61,11 +61,9 @@ endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] -t:: --tags:: - 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. + Request that all tags be fetched from the remote in addition + to whatever else is being fetched. Its effect is similar to + that of the refspec `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`. --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of |