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Some short-cut notations are also supported.
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-* 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