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Re: [PATCH] documentation: fix asterisks in fetch-options

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Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au>
Date
Jun 24, 2013, 11:42 UTC
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<20130624114202.GT2457@bacardi.hollandpark.frase.id.au>
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Right you are.  I missed that; apologies for the noise.
Fraser
On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 01:35:13PM +0200, Thomas Rast wrote:
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> Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> writes:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Wasn't this already fixed by 9eb4754 (fetch-options.txt: prevent a
> wildcard refspec from getting misformatted, 2013-06-07), currently in
> master?
> 
> -- 
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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