Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxx> writes: > The release notes for 1.9.0 read: > >> * The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to >> fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_ >> what are fetched by the same command line without the option. > > I think the release notes should also say -- like it was done > extensively for git add -- how to get back the old > behavior (perhaps through now-different commands). Perhaps, but the release note is not a place to repeat what the documentation already teaches---it primarily is to enumerate the changed areas, to highlight the things users may want to look up in the documentation, to give them a starting point. You would do something like this, I would think: git fetch $there 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' -- 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