[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@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, February 11, 2013 6:25 PM To: Olsen, Alan R Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fetch and -t "Olsen, Alan R" <alan.r.olsen@xxxxxxxxx> 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 -- 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