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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-10-23 14:39:08 +0900
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2017-10-23 14:39:08 +0900
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Merge branch 'jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update' into maint
"git fetch <there> <src>:<dst>" allows an object name on the <src> side when the other side accepts such a request since Git v2.5, but the documentation was left stale. * jc/fetch-refspec-doc-update: fetch doc: src side of refspec could be full SHA-1
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diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
index 1ebbf1d738..c579793af5 100644
--- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt
@@ -23,9 +23,11 @@ ifdef::git-pull[]
endif::git-pull[]
+
The format of a <refspec> parameter is an optional plus
-`+`, followed by the source ref <src>, followed
+`+`, followed by the source <src>, followed
by a colon `:`, followed by the destination ref <dst>.
-The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty.
+The colon can be omitted when <dst> is empty. <src> is
+typically a ref, but it can also be a fully spelled hex object
+name.
+
`tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
it requests fetching everything up to the given tag.