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| author | J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org> | 2006-01-12 22:08:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2006-01-12 22:03:11 -0800 |
| commit | c2bc6e404d75a3a68da5eefa47fa867569bc3339 (patch) | |
| tree | dad40a826af0a66e750524ed20f399706da3842d | |
| parent | 87758f975b04233ba058750f7ea8ce63bb67297f (diff) | |
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Documentation: clarify fetch parameter descriptions.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt index b5b979242..4524fee6f 100644 --- a/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt +++ b/Documentation/pull-fetch-param.txt @@ -134,9 +134,9 @@ is often useful. + Some short-cut notations are also supported. + -* For backward compatibility, `tag` is almost ignored; - it just makes the following parameter <tag> to mean a - refspec `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`. +* `tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`; + used with pull or fetch, it requests fetching everything up to + the given tag. * A parameter <ref> without a colon is equivalent to <ref>: when pulling/fetching, and <ref>`:`<ref> when pushing. That is, do not store it locally if |