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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc•navy.mil>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger•kernel.org>
Subject: Re: fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:26:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vodb5qk2b.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v3ashs5yg.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:47:51 -0800")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com> writes:

> Brandon Casey <casey@nrlssc•navy.mil> writes:
> ...
>> I expect these to _not_ fetch tags (and they don't):
>>
>>    git fetch <repo> <branch>
>>    git pull <repo> <branch>
>>
>> But, I did not expect these to fetch tags:
>>
>>    git fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch>
>>    git pull <repo> <branch>:<branch>
>
> Sigh... that matches my expectation.
>
> Did we break it when we overhauled "git fetch", or was this an
> independent "improvement" that happened long before that?

Having said that, I do not particularly think the new behaviour
is bad per-se.  If you are storing what you fetched locally in
tracking branches, you are interested in their work enough to
want to auto-follow their tags.

It's just that the expectation you and I shared is the
documented behaviour everywhere, and we would need to document
the new behaviour.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-29  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-29  2:33 fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags? Brandon Casey
2008-01-29  2:41 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-01-29  3:09   ` Brandon Casey
2008-01-29  2:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29  4:19   ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-01-29  5:26   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2008-01-29  8:46     ` Brandon Casey
2008-01-29  8:54       ` Junio C Hamano
2008-01-29 17:08         ` Brandon Casey

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