[PATCH] git-fetch: document automatic tag following.
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:53
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
I've added this to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted> --- Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
index 7ecf240..5fbeab7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt@@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge operation done by "git merge". +When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, +the tags that point at these branches are automatically +followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using +the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are +pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch +those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at +branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. + OPTIONS -------
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