Re: Git pull doesn't get the tags

2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15 · open the first message on its own page

Re: Git pull doesn't get the tags

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:51

Mathias Lafeldt [off-list ref] writes:
Try git pull --tags.

From git-pull's manpage:

-t
--tags
        Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
        heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at
        objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
        tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism.  This
        flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
        downloaded. [...]
Can somebody submit a patch to stop this part of "fetch-options.txt" from
getting included in "git pull" manpage please, by the way?

This is one of the options that are passed to the underlying "git fetch"
without sanitizing by "git pull".  "Fetch all tags and merge them" does
not make any sense as a request at the logical level, even though it might
be more convenient to type.

I do not recall offhand if we made sure the stuff fetched with --tags
request are marked as not-for-merge, and if we didn't that is certainly a
bug.

[PATCH] pull: Remove --tags option from manpage

From: Jens Lehmann <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:49:58

"Fetch all tags and merge them" does not make any sense as a request at
the logical level, even though it might be more convenient to type.

Signed-off-by: Jens Lehmann <redacted>
---

Am 22.10.2010 23:33, schrieb Junio C Hamano:
Mathias Lafeldt [off-list ref] writes:
quoted
From git-pull's manpage:

-t
--tags
        Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
        heads are downloaded, but tags that do not point at
        objects reachable from the branch heads that are being
        tracked will not be fetched by this mechanism.  This
        flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
        downloaded. [...]
Can somebody submit a patch to stop this part of "fetch-options.txt" from
getting included in "git pull" manpage please, by the way?
Maybe something like this?


 Documentation/fetch-options.txt |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 470ac31..5ce1e72 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ endif::git-pull[]
 	behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt
 	setting. See linkgit:git-config[1].

+ifndef::git-pull[]
 -t::
 --tags::
 	Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch
@@ -63,6 +64,7 @@ endif::git-pull[]
 	downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be
 	specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See
 	linkgit:git-config[1].
+endif::git-pull[]

 -u::
 --update-head-ok::
-- 
1.7.3.2.213.g5fe186
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