From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:56:01 GMT
Subject: Re: fetch --no-tags with and w/o --all
Message-ID: <7vboawp4zy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1879950.i2j8pjGADy@gandalf>

Cristian Tibirna <ctibirna@giref.ulaval.ca> writes:

> Hello
>
> $ git --version
> git version 1.7.10.4
>
> $ git fetch origin --no-tags
> does what it says
>
> $ git fetch --all --no-tags
> still gets all the tags from the remote.
>
> Is this known?

Because --all (or --multiple) to iterate through all remotes
does not pass accept any command line refspecs, using these options
with --no-tags and/or --tags should be diagnosed as an error, but it
appears that the error checking is not done.