Re: unclear documentation of git fetch --tags option and tagopt config

2012-12-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
"Philip Oakley" writes: > What would be the best way of updating the documentation to clarify the > point? Given ch3cooli's previous surprise. Oh, thanks for bringing it up. I was about to start another message that begins with "Having said all that..." ;-) I think the entire paragraph should

Re: unclear documentation of git fetch --tags option and tagopt config

2012-12-13 Thread Philip Oakley
From: "Junio C Hamano" Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 6:44 PM 乙酸鋰 writes: With git fetch --tags or remote.origin.tagopt = --tags git fetch only fetches tags, but not branches. Current documentation does not mention that no branches are fetched / pulled when --tags option or remote.origin.t

Re: unclear documentation of git fetch --tags option and tagopt config

2012-12-13 Thread Junio C Hamano
乙酸鋰 writes: > With git fetch --tags > or remote.origin.tagopt = --tags > git fetch only fetches tags, but not branches. > Current documentation does not mention that no branches are fetched / > pulled when --tags option or remote.origin.tagopt = --tags is > specified. In the canonical form you s