From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:47:51 GMT
Subject: Re: fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?
Message-ID: <7v3ashs5yg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <479E9063.5000403@nrlssc.navy.mil>

Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc.navy.mil> writes:

> I expect these to fetch tags automatically (and they do):
>
>    git fetch
>    git pull
>    git fetch <repo>
>    git pull <repo>
>
> I expect these to _not_ fetch tags (and they don't):
>
>    git fetch <repo> <branch>
>    git pull <repo> <branch>
>
> But, I did not expect these to fetch tags:
>
>    git fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch>
>    git pull <repo> <branch>:<branch>

Sigh... that matches my expectation.

Did we break it when we overhauled "git fetch", or was this an
independent "improvement" that happened long before that?