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* Fetch and -t
@ 2013-02-12  0:41 Olsen, Alan R
  2013-02-12  2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Olsen, Alan R @ 2013-02-12  0:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

I have found that if I add a remote and do a "git fetch -t -f remote_name" that it *only* pulls tags.

Reading the man page it seems like it should pull all the remotes and all the tags and the commits only reachable by tags.

Am I misreading this or it supposed to work this way.  I don't mind doing two fetches to get everything, but the documentation needs to be a little clearer.

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* Re: Fetch and -t
  2013-02-12  0:41 Fetch and -t Olsen, Alan R
@ 2013-02-12  2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
  2013-02-12 18:28   ` Olsen, Alan R
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Junio C Hamano @ 2013-02-12  2:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Olsen, Alan R; +Cc: git

"Olsen, Alan R" <alan.r.olsen@intel.com> writes:

> I have found that if I add a remote and do a "git fetch -t -f
> remote_name" that it *only* pulls tags.
>
> Reading the man page it seems like it should pull all the remotes
> and all the tags and the commits only reachable by tags.

This is what appears in the documentation we ship these days.

    -t::
    --tags::
            This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
            refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
            and stored locally.  Because this acts as an explicit
            refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
            remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.

http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git-fetch.html

Previous discussion:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/180636

A more recent one:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211439/focus=211464

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* RE: Fetch and -t
  2013-02-12  2:24 ` Junio C Hamano
@ 2013-02-12 18:28   ` Olsen, Alan R
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Olsen, Alan R @ 2013-02-12 18:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: git

[Sorry for the top-posting. I *hate* Outlook.]

I will need to check why my system is showing old man pages. I am running something compiled from the git tree on kernel.org.

Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Junio C Hamano [mailto:gitster@pobox.com] 
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:25 PM
To: Olsen, Alan R
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fetch and -t

"Olsen, Alan R" <alan.r.olsen@intel.com> writes:

> I have found that if I add a remote and do a "git fetch -t -f 
> remote_name" that it *only* pulls tags.
>
> Reading the man page it seems like it should pull all the remotes and 
> all the tags and the commits only reachable by tags.

This is what appears in the documentation we ship these days.

    -t::
    --tags::
            This is a short-hand for giving "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"
            refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
            and stored locally.  Because this acts as an explicit
            refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
            remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.

http://git-htmldocs.googlecode.com/git/git-fetch.html

Previous discussion:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/180636

A more recent one:

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/211439/focus=211464

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