RE: Fetch and -t

From: Olsen, Alan R <alan.r.olsen@intel.com>
Date: Feb 12, 2013, 18:28 UTC
Message-ID: <4B2793BF110AAB47AB0EE7B9089703854FEE45E9@fmsmsx110.amr.corp.intel.com>
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[Sorry for the top-posting. I *hate* Outlook.]

I will need to check why my system is showing old man pages. I am running something compiled from the git tree on kernel.org.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:25 PM
To: Olsen, Alan R
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fetch and -t

"Olsen, Alan R" <alan.r.olsen@intel.com> writes:

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> I have found that if I add a remote and do a "git fetch -t -f 
> remote_name" that it *only* pulls tags.
>
> Reading the man page it seems like it should pull all the remotes and 
> all the tags and the commits only reachable by tags.

This is what appears in the documentation we ship these days.

    -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.

http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git-fetch.html

Previous discussion:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/180636

A more recent one:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211439/focus=211464