On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 02:51, Peter Shenkin <shenkin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Perhaps it will be useful to say what would have been most > helpful for me. In the current documentation for "fetch > --tags", one sentence reads, "This flag lets all tags and > their associated objects be downloaded." The following small > modification would, IMO, be sufficient: "This flag causes all > tags and their associated objects (only) to be downloaded." 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. See here: [PATCH v3] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch' Message-ID: <686c38876d5a4ad6bfac67ca77fe9bb3-mfwitten@xxxxxxxxx> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181887 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html