From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 23:41:35 +0000 (-0800) Subject: git-fetch: document automatic tag following. X-Git-Tag: v1.5.0~40 X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=02f571c73bfdf1d950848ed24229caea438f1f72;p=git.git git-fetch: document automatic tag following. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 7ecf2408d..5fbeab76b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge operation done by "git merge". +When stores the fetched result in tracking branches, +the tags that point at these branches are automatically +followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using +the given s, and if the repository has objects that are +pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch +those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at +branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. + OPTIONS -------