Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only

Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:
 

On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 20:22, Peter Shenkin <shenkin <at> gmail.com> wrote:
    [--tags] is merely a shorthand for writing the refspec
    `refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/\*'; that is,

Yes, I understand that fully and it makes perfect sense.

But it leaves unexplained and undocumented the fact
that the user's specification of an *additional* refspec is
observed if the additional refspec is given on the
command line but ignored if the additional refspec is
given in the config file.

-P.