Merge branch 'ar/mergestat'

[git.git] / Documentation / git-fetch.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
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--- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-fetch(1)
 
 NAME
 ----
-git-fetch - Download objects and a head from another repository
+git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository
 
 
 SYNOPSIS
@@ -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
 -------