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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt3
-rw-r--r--http-fetch.c4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
index 4d4207386..070cd1e6e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-http-fetch.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ DESCRIPTION
-----------
Downloads a remote git repository via HTTP.
+*NOTE*: use of this command without -a is deprecated. The -a
+behaviour will become the default in a future release.
+
OPTIONS
-------
commit-id::
diff --git a/http-fetch.c b/http-fetch.c
index 3af4c71bd..8c4c5d222 100644
--- a/http-fetch.c
+++ b/http-fetch.c
@@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
commits = 1;
}
+ if (get_all == 0)
+ warning("http-fetch: use without -a is deprecated.\n"
+ "In a future release, -a will become the default.");
+
if (argv[arg])
str_end_url_with_slash(argv[arg], &url);