From c5a84e92a2fe9e8748e32341c344d7a6c0f52a50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Haggerty Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 06:32:59 +0100 Subject: fetch --tags: fetch tags *in addition to* other stuff Previously, fetch's "--tags" option was considered equivalent to specifying the refspec "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" on the command line; in particular, it caused the remote..refspec configuration to be ignored. But it is not very useful to fetch tags without also fetching other references, whereas it *is* quite useful to be able to fetch tags *in addition to* other references. So change the semantics of this option to do the latter. If a user wants to fetch *only* tags, then it is still possible to specifying an explicit refspec: git fetch 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' Please note that the documentation prior to 1.8.0.3 was ambiguous about this aspect of "fetch --tags" behavior. Commit f0cb2f137c 2012-12-14 fetch --tags: clarify documentation made the documentation match the old behavior. This commit changes the documentation to match the new behavior. Signed-off-by: Michael Haggerty Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- git-pull.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'git-pull.sh') diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh index b946fd975b..97716b885f 100755 --- a/git-pull.sh +++ b/git-pull.sh @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ error_on_no_merge_candidates () { do case "$opt" in -t|--t|--ta|--tag|--tags) - echo "Fetching tags only, you probably meant:" + echo "It doesn't make sense to pull all tags; you probably meant:" echo " git fetch --tags" exit 1 esac -- cgit v1.3