From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:19:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-pull: warn if only fetching tags with the -t switch
Message-ID: <7vodcbe17f.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vve6je349.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

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

> It appears that the explicit case also needs documentation.

But with two "oops-correction"s.

> The refs fetched are:
>
>  + Having --tags on the command line is the same as replacing
>    remote.$remote.fetch with refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* in the
>    configuration.
>
>  + If refspecs are explicitly given from the command line, they
>    will be the ones that are fetched, and remotes.$remote.fetch
>    is consulted unless they come from the above --tags.

s/is consulted/is ignored/;

>  * Otherwise, remotes.$remote.fetch (and its equivalent in
>    .git/remotes/$remote) are the ones that are fetched.
>
>  * In addition, if branch.$current_branch.merge is specified but
>    is not covered by the above, it also is fetched.

s/if /if no explicit refspecs are given and /;