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authorLuck, Tony <tony.luck@intel.com>2005-11-18 14:04:58 -0800
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-11-18 14:25:10 -0800
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Update pull/fetch --tags documentation
When fetching/pulling from a remote repository the "--tags" option can be used to pull tags too. Document that it will limit the pull to only commits reachable from the tags. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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-t, \--tags::
By default, the git core utilities will not fetch and store
tags under the same name as the remote repository; ask it
- to do so using `--tags`.
+ to do so using `--tags`. Using this option will bound the
+ list of objects pulled to the remote tags. Commits in branches
+ beyond the tags will be ignored.
-u, \--update-head-ok::
By default `git-fetch` refuses to update the head which