I've added this to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 7ecf240..5fbeab7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge operation done by "git merge". +When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, +the tags that point at these branches are automatically +followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using +the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are +pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch +those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at +branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. + OPTIONS ------- -- 1.5.0.rc4.16.g9e258 - 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