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Fetch and -t

Subject: Fetch and -t

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Olsen, Alan R· Feb 12, 2013, 00:41 UTC · lore

I have found that if I add a remote and do a "git fetch -t -f remote_name" that it *only* pulls tags.

Reading the man page it seems like it should pull all the remotes and all the tags and the commits only reachable by tags.

Am I misreading this or it supposed to work this way.  I don't mind doing two fetches to get everything, but the documentation needs to be a little clearer.

Junio C Hamano· Feb 12, 2013, 02:24 UTC · re: Olsen, Alan R · lore

Re: Fetch and -t

"Olsen, Alan R" <alan.r.olsen@intel.com> writes:

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> I have found that if I add a remote and do a "git fetch -t -f
> remote_name" that it *only* pulls tags.
>
> Reading the man page it seems like it should pull all the remotes
> and all the tags and the commits only reachable by tags.

This is what appears in the documentation we ship these days.

    -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.

http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git-fetch.html

Previous discussion:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/180636

A more recent one:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211439/focus=211464

Olsen, Alan R· Feb 12, 2013, 18:28 UTC · re: Junio C Hamano · lore

RE: Fetch and -t

[Sorry for the top-posting. I *hate* Outlook.]

I will need to check why my system is showing old man pages. I am running something compiled from the git tree on kernel.org.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com] 
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To: Olsen, Alan R
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fetch and -t

"Olsen, Alan R" <alan.r.olsen@intel.com> writes:

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> I have found that if I add a remote and do a "git fetch -t -f 
> remote_name" that it *only* pulls tags.
>
> Reading the man page it seems like it should pull all the remotes and 
> all the tags and the commits only reachable by tags.

This is what appears in the documentation we ship these days.

    -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.

http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git-fetch.html

Previous discussion:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/180636

A more recent one:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211439/focus=211464