From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 13:23:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1BsTKBPArRF-LxoNOJcQarMWx-2a2UBoVjWN-96xJ3Ad8A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20110930T041939-332@post.gmane.org>

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:51, Peter Shenkin <shenkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps it will be useful to say what would have been most
> helpful for me. In the current documentation for "fetch
> --tags", one sentence reads, "This flag lets all tags and
> their associated  objects be downloaded." The following small
> modification would, IMO, be sufficient: "This flag causes all
> tags and their associated objects (only) to be downloaded."

Well, you're missing the fact that it not only causes those to
be downloaded, but it also causes the defaults to be ignored,
which is why you don't get the other stuff. You can still tell
git to fetch anything else you want in addition.

See here:

  [PATCH v3] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch'
  Message-ID: <686c38876d5a4ad6bfac67ca77fe9bb3-mfwitten@gmail.com>
  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181887