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Re: git-fetch remote tag to local branch fails

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KLKlas Lindberg <klas.lindberg@gmail.com>
Date
Jun 24, 2008, 15:36 UTC
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> I'm not sure what you mean. I asked it to update local branch "b"
> against remote tag "foo_tag" and it did just that. I find it
> inconsistent that pull can do this, but fetch can't.

I'm sorry. That was plain wrong. It doesn't update the branch from the remote tag when I pull.

Oh well...
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