From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:24:33 GMT
Subject: Re: Fetch and -t
Message-ID: <7v621yjmla.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4B2793BF110AAB47AB0EE7B9089703854FEE40B6@fmsmsx110.amr.corp.intel.com>

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

> 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