Re: fetch --no-tags with and w/o --all

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 7, 2013, 00:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20130307002038.GA31571@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vboawp4zy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:56:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna@giref.ulaval.ca> writes:
> 
> > Hello
> >
> > $ git --version
> > git version 1.7.10.4
> >
> > $ git fetch origin --no-tags
> > does what it says
> >
> > $ git fetch --all --no-tags
> > still gets all the tags from the remote.
> >
> > Is this known?
> 
> Because --all (or --multiple) to iterate through all remotes
> does not pass accept any command line refspecs, using these options
> with --no-tags and/or --tags should be diagnosed as an error, but it
> appears that the error checking is not done.

Or we could just pass them through. Looks like this was already fixed by 8556646 (fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remote, 2012-09-05), which is in v1.7.12.2 and higher.

-Peff