[PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
From: Anatol Pomozov <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:52:05
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
'git fetch --tags' fetches tags only and leaves heads untouched. Many people are confused by the fact that 'git fetch --tags' does not fetch heads. Signed-off-by: Anatol Pomozov <redacted> --- Documentation/fetch-options.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
index 39d326a..37d2316 100644
--- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ ifndef::git-pull[] flag lets all tags and their associated objects be downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See - linkgit:git-config[1]. + linkgit:git-config[1]. Note that if this option is specified + then only tags are fetched, refs under refs/heads/* stay unchanged. --recurse-submodules[=yes|on-demand|no]:: This option controls if and under what conditions new commits of
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