From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 01:54:08 GMT
Subject: Re: git-1.5.0.rc2: "git pull -t" complains
Message-ID: <7vwt3ban27.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <200701250137.l0P1bRYm020504@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl>

"Horst H. von Brand" <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> writes:

> I've got a repo here which is missing oldish tags, so I:
>
>    $ git pull -t
>    Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
> 	    "branch.master.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.
>    No changes.
>
> Both "git pull --help" and git-pull(1) say this should work.

Ah, that's because git-pull documentation shares large part of
the source with git-fetch (the part that talk about --tags is
coming from a single file, pull-fetch-param.txt).

It really shouldn't.  Fetching all tags and merging them all to
your current branch does not make any sense.