- "Branches" is a more common way to say "heads" in these days. - Remote-tracking branches are used a lot more these days and it is worth mentioning that it is one of the primary side effects of the command to update them. - Avoid "X. That means Y." If Y is easier to understand to readers, just say that upfront. - Use of explicit refspec to fetch tags does not have much to do with turning "auto following" on or off. It is a way to fetch tags that otherwise would not be fetched by auto-following. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- Documentation/git-fetch.txt | 29 ++++++++++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index 5809aa4..d5f5b54 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -17,20 +17,23 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -Fetches named heads or tags from one or more other repositories, -along with the objects necessary to complete them. - -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'. - -By default, tags are auto-followed. This means that when fetching -from a remote, any tags on the remote that point to objects that exist -in the local repository are fetched. The effect is to fetch tags that +Fetch branches and/or tags (collectively, "refs") from one or more +other repositories, along with the objects necessary to complete the +histories of them. + +The names of refs that are fetched, together with the object names +they point at, are written to `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information +is used by a later merge operation done by 'git merge'. In addition, +the remote-tracking branches may be updated (see description on +<refspec> below for details). + +By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is +also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that point at branches that you are interested in. This default behavior -can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options, by -configuring remote.<name>.tagopt, or by using a refspec that fetches -tags explicitly. +can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options or by +configuring remote.<name>.tagopt. By using a refspec that fetches tags +explicitly, you can fetch tags that do not point into branches you +are interested in as well. 'git fetch' can fetch from either a single named repository, or from several repositories at once if <group> is given and -- 2.0.0-479-g59ac8f9 -- 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