From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 14:11:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1Bvn64q5sVfo2-ZhTSpBttpjG1pHELJMM9sEmWsrqANCkw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20111001T073652-884@post.gmane.org>

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 05:40, Peter Shenkin <shenkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> 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.
>
> I was no longer missing it at the time I posted.
>
> But that is indeed what I was missing when I first encountered
> the behavior. The purpose of posting was to point out that
> with  a very small change in the documentation,  I would not
> have missed it.

However, my point was this:

  You can still tell git to fetch anything else you want in addition.

That point doesn't seem clear with your proposed alteration.