Re: fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2008, 05:26 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

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

Having said that, I do not particularly think the new behaviour is bad per-se. If you are storing what you fetched locally in tracking branches, you are interested in their work enough to want to auto-follow their tags.

It's just that the expectation you and I shared is the documented behaviour everywhere, and we would need to document the new behaviour.