On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 10:50 AM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason > <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:12 AM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt >>> index ec41d3d69..4f1e7d4ba 100644 >>> --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt >>> +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt >>> @@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository. >>> values are given for the same key, each value will be written to >>> the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add >>> additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote. >>> + Note that due to limitations of the current implementation some >>> + configuration variables don't take effect during the initial >>> + fetch and checkout. Configuration variables known to not take >>> + effect are: `remote.<name>.mirror` and `remote.<name>.tagOpt`. >> >> We should add to that: "Instead supply the --mirror and --no-tags >> options, respectively". > > I don't think we can do that in this patch right now. This topic > branches off from c3808ca69 (preparing for 2.10.3, 2016-12-05), I > assume because, as a bugfix, it will be included in maintenance > releases for older releases, and those won't have the '--no-tags' > option. Perhaps as a follow-up, only on master. Sorry, my misunderstanding. I didn't think we'd be updating docs like this in maint releases, thought this was for to-be-2.14.