From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:26:04 GMT
Subject: Re: fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?
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In-Reply-To: <7v3ashs5yg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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.