X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=Documentation%2Fgit-fetch.txt;h=d982f961fc5111ce0e37dd571530652fca147d01;hb=891e85a0c08e12d3f6174d8eb10b4ef284c4b01b;hp=a9e86fd26b0df6fe7a84ebdd030b9ae4d46f597e;hpb=38ebbacd93eb547b3608b64a2efc60fd79e1ea85;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index a9e86fd26..d982f961f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -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 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 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 ------- @@ -27,11 +35,11 @@ include::fetch-options.txt[] include::pull-fetch-param.txt[] -include::urls.txt[] +include::urls-remotes.txt[] SEE ALSO -------- -gitlink:git-pull[1] +linkgit:git-pull[1] Author @@ -45,4 +53,4 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list