Re: fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:
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I expect these to _not_ fetch tags (and they don't):

   git fetch <repo> <branch>
   git pull <repo> <branch>

But, I did not expect these to fetch tags:

   git fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch>
   git pull <repo> <branch>:<branch>

Sigh... that matches my expectation.

Did we break it when we overhauled "git fetch", or was this an
independent "improvement" that happened long before that?

Having said that, I do not particularly think the new behaviour
is bad per-se.  If you are storing what you fetched locally in
tracking branches, you are interested in their work enough to
want to auto-follow their tags.

It's just that the expectation you and I shared is the
documented behaviour everywhere, and we would need to document
the new behaviour.