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[PATCH] documentation: fix asterisks in fetch-options

From
Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
Date
Jun 24, 2013, 11:31 UTC
Message-ID
<1372073467-29112-1-git-send-email-frase@frase.id.au>

Fix refspec asterisks in the -t/--tags section of the fetch-options documentation.

Signed-off-by: Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
---
 Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 11 ++++++-----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 9cb6496..f2ac3bc 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -61,11 +61,12 @@ 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.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.
+	This is a short-hand for giving
+	"refs/tags/{asterisk}:refs/tags/{asterisk}" refspec from the
+	command line, to ask all tags to be fetched and stored
+	locally.  Because this acts as an explicit refspec, the
+	default refspecs (configured with the remote.$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
-- 
1.8.3.1
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