From: Peter Shenkin <shenkin@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:41:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
Message-ID: <loom.20111001T232414-84@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMOZ1BsYYmH6hqcB4vfCq2LAu+fxJ4MzPQ1+-erUSqU1ptx2mQ@mail.gmail.com>

Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:
 
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 20:22, Peter Shenkin <shenkin <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>     [--tags] is merely a shorthand for writing the refspec
>     `refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/\*'; that is,

Yes, I understand that fully and it makes perfect sense.

But it leaves unexplained and undocumented the fact
that the user's specification of an *additional* refspec is
observed if the additional refspec is given on the
command line but ignored if the additional refspec is
given in the config file.

-P.