From: Junio C Hamano Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 00:19:45 +0000 (-0800) Subject: fetch --tags: clarify documentation X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f0cb2f137c6e399bab1be92c7cc8e3e08bd36c4f;p=git.git 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.$name.fetch variable. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt index b4d6476ac..6e98bdf14 100644 --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt @@ -57,14 +57,11 @@ endif::git-pull[] ifndef::git-pull[] -t:: --tags:: - Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch - heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at - objects reachable from the branch heads that are being - tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism. This - flag lets all tags and their associated objects be - downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be - specified with the remote..tagopt setting. See - linkgit:git-config[1]. + This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" + refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched + and stored locally. Because this acts as an explicit + refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the + remote.$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