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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-12-01 12:24:51 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-12-01 12:24:51 -0800
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Documentation: describe '-f' option to git-fetch.
The option description header was there without body text, confusingly getting rendered as if the description for --tags applied to the option. Noticed by Carl Baldwin. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
-f, \--force::
+ When `git-fetch` is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
+ refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
+ `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
+ fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`. This option
+ overrides that check.
-t, \--tags::
By default, the git core utilities will not fetch and store