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unclear documentation of git fetch --tags option and tagopt config

From
乙酸鋰 <ch3cooli@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 13, 2012, 06:29 UTC
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Hi,

With git fetch --tags or remote.origin.tagopt = --tags git fetch only fetches tags, but not branches. Current documentation does not mention that no branches are fetched / pulled when --tags option or remote.origin.tagopt = --tags is specified.

Regards, ch3cooli

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