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From: John Feuerstein <john@feurix•com>
To: Frans Pop <elendil@planet•nl>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: Feature request: option to not fetch tags for 'git remote' branches
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:08:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAA7F5B.2040400@feurix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003242154.29245.elendil@planet.nl>

Hello Frans,

> It would be great to be able to tell 'git remote' to skip tags and only 
> fetch the requested branch. A --no-tags option maybe?
> 
> AFAIK this is currently not possible, although I'd happy to be proven 
> wrong.

have a look at -n, --no-tags provided by git-fetch, ie.

$ git remote add ... foo ...
$ git fetch -n foo


Regards,
John

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-24 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-24 20:54 Feature request: option to not fetch tags for 'git remote' branches Frans Pop
2010-03-24 21:08 ` John Feuerstein [this message]
2010-03-24 21:35   ` Björn Steinbrink
2010-03-24 21:46   ` Frans Pop
2010-03-27 19:10     ` Samuel Tardieu
2010-03-27 19:25       ` Samuel Tardieu
2010-03-30  8:09       ` Frans Pop

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