From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
To: Peter Shenkin <shenkin@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 14:11:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMOZ1Bvn64q5sVfo2-ZhTSpBttpjG1pHELJMM9sEmWsrqANCkw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20111001T073652-884@post.gmane.org>
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 05:40, Peter Shenkin <shenkin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:
>> Well, you're missing the fact that it not only causes those to
>> be downloaded, but it also causes the defaults to be ignored,
>> which is why you don't get the other stuff. You can still tell
>> git to fetch anything else you want in addition.
>
> I was no longer missing it at the time I posted.
>
> But that is indeed what I was missing when I first encountered
> the behavior. The purpose of posting was to point out that
> with a very small change in the documentation, I would not
> have missed it.
However, my point was this:
You can still tell git to fetch anything else you want in addition.
That point doesn't seem clear with your proposed alteration.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-01 14:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 21:04 [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Anatol Pomozov
2011-09-02 21:18 ` Drew Northup
2011-09-21 23:52 ` Anatol Pomozov
2011-09-22 0:13 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 0:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 2:01 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 2:07 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 3:13 ` Andrew Ardill
2011-09-22 3:24 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 3:39 ` [PATCH] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch' Michael Witten
2011-09-22 3:48 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 4:28 ` [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 7:23 ` [PATCH v3] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch' Michael Witten
2011-09-22 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 17:35 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 17:38 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 4:00 ` [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 4:17 ` [PATCH v2] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch' Michael Witten
2011-09-22 1:14 ` [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Daniel Johnson
2011-09-30 2:51 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-09-30 8:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-09-30 13:23 ` Michael Witten
2011-10-01 5:40 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 14:11 ` Michael Witten [this message]
2011-10-01 17:16 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 18:45 ` Michael Witten
2011-10-01 20:22 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 20:56 ` Michael Witten
2011-10-01 21:41 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 22:06 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-09-30 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-01 5:51 ` Peter Shenkin
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