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| author | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-09 15:41:35 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-09 15:41:35 -0800 |
| commit | 02f571c73bfdf1d950848ed24229caea438f1f72 (patch) | |
| tree | dd4434b55ece859cdcfd6a2deeee162cac11cce3 /Documentation/git-fetch.txt | |
| parent | ad34a028c126fde97359c9d67e8d634043670a21 (diff) | |
| download | git-02f571c73bfdf1d950848ed24229caea438f1f72.tar.gz | |
git-fetch: document automatic tag following.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 7ecf2408d6..5fbeab76b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge operation done by "git merge". +When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, +the tags that point at these branches are automatically +followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using +the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are +pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch +those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at +branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. + OPTIONS ------- |