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Re: [BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Aug 11, 2007, 04:14 UTC
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Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@verizon.net> writes:
> git>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
> * refusing to create funny ref 'tags/*' locally

I think fetch's wildcard is effective only in the config file, and this is not just tags. It would be nice if you could say

	$ git fetch foo.bndl 'refs/*:refs/*'
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