From: Peter Shenkin <shenkin@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:40:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
Message-ID: <loom.20111001T073652-884@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMOZ1BsTKBPArRF-LxoNOJcQarMWx-2a2UBoVjWN-96xJ3Ad8A@mail.gmail.com>

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. 

-P.