Re: fetch --no-tags with and w/o --all

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 7, 2013, 00:41 UTC
Message-ID: <7vhakonirb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130307002038.GA31571@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 01:56:01PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> Or we could just pass them through. Looks like this was already fixed by
> 8556646 (fetch --all: pass --tags/--no-tags through to each remote,
> 2012-09-05), which is in v1.7.12.2 and higher.

;-)  No wonder this looked somewhat familiar.