Re: unclear documentation of git fetch --tags option and tagopt config

> 乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> With git fetch --tags
>> or remote.origin.tagopt = --tags
>> git fetch only fetches tags, but not branches.
>> Current documentation does not mention that no branches are fetched /
>> pulled when --tags option or remote.origin.tagopt = --tags is
>> specified.
>
> In the canonical form you spell out what you want to fetch from
> where, and a lazy "git fetch" or "git fetch origin" that does not
> specify what are to be fetched are the special cases.  Because they
> do not say what to fetch, they would become a no-op, which would not
> be very useful, if there is no special casing for them.  Instead,
> they use sensible default, taking refspec from the configuration
> variable remote.$name.fetch.
>
> Giving refspecs or the "--tags" option from the command line is a
> way to explicitly override this default, hence:
>
>    $ git fetch origin HEAD
>
> only fetches the history leading to the commit at HEAD at the
> remote, ignoring the configured refspecs.  As "--tags" is a synonym
> to "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*", "git fetch --tags origin" tells us to
> ignore refspecs and grab only the tags, i.e.:
>
>    $ git fetch origin "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
>
> which does not grab any branches.
>
> You can of course do:
>
>    $ git fetch --tags origin 
> refs/heads/master:refs/remotes/origin/master
>
> --