From: Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:30:16 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-pull: don't complain about branch merge config if only fetching tags
Message-ID: <20071227093016.18337.qmail@e6d9fb481b7087.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v8x3oatvi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 08:35:13AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> writes:
> > When running git pull with the -t switch, it properly fetches tags, but
> > complains about missing information on how to merge.  Since there's
> > nothing to merge, make git-pull simply exit after fetching the tags.

> I've seen this patch on this list in the past, but isn't "git
> pull -t" a user-error?

If so, we shouldn't advertise the -t switch in the git-pull(1) manpage.
As it stands, I'd understand 'git pull -t' as 'fetch _all_ tags and
branch heads and merge according to the configuration'.

Regards, Gerrit.