From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 20:01:45 GMT
Subject: Re: release-notes could be clearer on git-fetch changes
Message-ID: <xmqqtxbu98ie.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1402191952070.31131@nerf08.vanv.qr>

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> writes:

> The release notes for 1.9.0 read:
>
>> * The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to
>>   fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_
>>   what are fetched by the same command line without the option.
>
> I think the release notes should also say -- like it was done
> extensively for git add -- how to get back the old
> behavior (perhaps through now-different commands).

Perhaps, but the release note is not a place to repeat what the
documentation already teaches---it primarily is to enumerate the
changed areas, to highlight the things users may want to look up in the
documentation, to give them a starting point.

You would do something like this, I would think:

	git fetch $there 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'