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[BUG] git fetch --all --tags doesn't fetch remote branches, only tags

Subject: [BUG] git fetch --all --tags doesn't fetch remote branches, only tags

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3 messages between Jan 1, 2013 and Jan 1, 2013.

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Dennis Heidsiek· Jan 1, 2013, 00:43 UTC · lore
Dear Git community,
i think there may be a bug in the fetch command: The command
> $ git fetch --all --tags
> Fetching origin
doesn’t fetch new commits from origin/master, while i see via the web browser of my remote repository that they exist. The same with verbose:
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> $ git fetch --all --tags --verbose
> Fetching origin
> From git://repo.or.cz/wortliste
>  = [up to date]      Trennmuster-20071020 -> Trennmuster-20071020
>  = [up to date]      Trennmuster-20071223 -> Trennmuster-20071223
>  = [up to date]      Trennmuster-20080601 -> Trennmuster-20080601
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.1 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.1
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.11 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.11
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.12 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.12
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.12.1 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.12.1
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.13 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.13
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.20 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.20
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.22 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.22
>  = [up to date]      dehyph-exptl-v0.23 -> dehyph-exptl-v0.23
Only if i omit the --tags commit, fetch does what i expect:
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> $ git fetch --all --verbose
> Fetching origin
> remote: Counting objects: 13, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (8/8), done.
> remote: Total 8 (delta 5), reused 0 (delta 0)
> Unpacking objects: 100% (8/8), done.
> From git://repo.or.cz/wortliste
>    7c71430..176027b  master     -> origin/master
>  = [up to date] Keine-Haupttrennstellen-in-zweisilbigen-Wörtern -> origin/Keine-Haupttrennstellen-in-zweisilbigen-Wörtern
>  = [up to date]      python-skripts -> origin/python-skripts
I think this may be a bug; i’m using my git alias fa = fetch --all --tags --verbose quite often, and it worked in previous versions of Git.
Finnally, i’m using Git 1.8.0.3  under Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS x86_64 via this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~git-core/+archive/ppa
Thank you for your time reading this and of cause a happy new year!

With best greetings, Dennis Heidsiek

PS: I’m no subscriber of the Git mailing list.
Junio C Hamano· Jan 1, 2013, 01:15 UTC · re: Dennis Heidsiek · lore

Re: [BUG] git fetch --all --tags doesn't fetch remote branches, only tags

Dennis Heidsiek <dennis.heidsiek@gmail.com> writes:
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> i think there may be a bug in the fetch command: The command
>
>> $ git fetch --all --tags
>> Fetching origin
>
> doesn’t fetch new commits from origin/master, while i see via the
> web browser of my remote repository that they exist.

The "--all" option asks to fetch from all remotes, and "--tags" option asks to disable the configured fetch refspecs and instead grab only the tags. It appears that what you observed is exactly what should happen and in line with the documentation:

$ git help fetch | sed -ne '/^ .*-t.*--tags/,/^$/p'
 -t, --tags
     This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/:refs/tags/" refspec
     from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched and stored
     locally. Because this acts as an explicit refspec, the default
     refspecs (configured with the remote.$name.fetch variable) are
     overridden and not used.
Dennis Heidsiek· Jan 1, 2013, 01:28 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

Re: [BUG] git fetch --all --tags doesn't fetch remote branches, only tags

Dear Mr. Hamano,
so i /did/ misunderstand the documentation – my fault. Thank you very much for your rapid clarification!

With grateful greetings, Dennis Heidsiek

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