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. -P. -- 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