Re: [PATCH] documentation: fix asterisks in fetch-options

From: Thomas Rast <trast@inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Jun 24, 2013, 11:35 UTC
Message-ID: <8761x33fny.fsf@linux-k42r.v.cablecom.net>
In-Reply-To: <1372073467-29112-1-git-send-email-frase@frase.id.au>

Fraser Tweedale <frase@frase.id.au> writes:

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> diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> index 9cb6496..f2ac3bc 100644
> --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
> @@ -61,11 +61,12 @@ endif::git-pull[]
>  ifndef::git-pull[]
>  -t::
>  --tags::
> -	This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
> -	refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
> -	and stored locally.  Because this acts as an explicit
> -	refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
> -	remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.
> +	This is a short-hand for giving
> +	"refs/tags/{asterisk}:refs/tags/{asterisk}" refspec from the
> +	command line, to ask all tags to be fetched and stored
> +	locally.  Because this acts as an explicit refspec, the
> +	default refspecs (configured with the remote.$name.fetch
> +	variable) are overridden and not used.

Wasn't this already fixed by 9eb4754 (fetch-options.txt: prevent a wildcard refspec from getting misformatted, 2013-06-07), currently in master?

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Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch