[BUG] git fetch --all --tags doesn't fetch remote branches, only tags

From: Dennis Heidsiek <dennis.heidsiek@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 1, 2013, 00:43 UTC
Message-ID: <50E2311D.8080707@gmail.com>

Dear Git community,

i think there may be a bug in the fetch command: The command

> $ git fetch --all --tags
> Fetching origin

doesn’t fetch new commits from origin/master, while i see via the web browser of my remote repository that they exist. The same with verbose:

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> $ git fetch --all --tags --verbose
> Fetching origin
> From git://repo.or.cz/wortliste
>  = [up to date]      Trennmuster-20071020 -> Trennmuster-20071020
>  = [up to date]      Trennmuster-20071223 -> Trennmuster-20071223
>  = [up to date]      Trennmuster-20080601 -> Trennmuster-20080601
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.1 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.1
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.11 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.11
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.12 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.12
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.12.1 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.12.1
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.13 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.13
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.20 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.20
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.22 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.22
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.23 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.23

Only if i omit the --tags commit, fetch does what i expect:

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> $ git fetch --all --verbose
> Fetching origin
> remote: Counting objects: 13, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
> remote: Total 8 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), done.
> From git://repo.or.cz/wortliste
>    7c71430..176027b  master     -> origin/master
>  = [up to date] Keine-Haupttrennstellen-in-zweisilbigen-Wörtern -> origin/Keine-Haupttrennstellen-in-zweisilbigen-Wörtern
>  = [up to date]      python-skripts -> origin/python-skripts

I think this may be a bug; i’m using my git alias fa = fetch --all --tags --verbose quite often, and it worked in previous versions of Git.

Finnally, i’m using Git 1.8.0.3  under Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS x86_64 via this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa

Thank you for your time reading this and of cause a happy new year!

With best greetings, Dennis Heidsiek

PS: I’m no subscriber of the Git mailing list.