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<repository>::
The "remote" repository that is the source of a fetch
- or pull operation. See the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below.
+ or pull operation. This parameter can be either a URL
+ (see the section <<URLS,GIT URLS>> below) or the name
+ of a remote (see the section <<REMOTES,REMOTES>> below).
<refspec>::
The canonical format of a <refspec> parameter is
+
Some short-cut notations are also supported.
+
-* `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
+* `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`;
it requests fetching everything up to the given tag.
* A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to
<ref>: when pulling/fetching, so it merges <ref> into the current