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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "Carlsson\, Magnus" <Magnus.Carlsson@arris.com>,
	"git\@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git fetch with refspec does not include tags?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:41:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwp62f0dm.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170817142233.v2c534zh6wv7ttei@sigill.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Thu, 17 Aug 2017 10:22:33 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I think it's a bit more complex because "git pull" uses "git fetch"
> under the hood. In fact, your "git fetch origin master" is exactly what
> gets run when you do:
>
>   git pull origin master
>
> That's maybe OK. But I think one-off pulls like:
>
>   git pull https://example.com/repo.git master
>
> probably wouldn't want it. I'd have to give it some thought.

I agree with both.  If you have named remote, you presumably are
keeping copies of their branches as remote-tracking branches, and it
may be fine to follow tags.  An explicit URL used for one-off should
not grab anything but the named thing, I would think.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-17 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1502960406180.9006@arris.com>
2017-08-17  9:02 ` git fetch with refspec does not include tags? Carlsson, Magnus
2017-08-17  9:28   ` Jeff King
2017-08-17 11:29     ` Carlsson, Magnus
2017-08-17 14:22       ` Jeff King
2017-08-17 19:41         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2017-08-17 19:38     ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-17 20:22       ` Kevin Daudt
2017-08-17 20:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-08-17 20:43           ` Kevin Daudt
2017-08-20  7:47             ` Jeff King
2017-08-20  7:50               ` Jeff King
2017-08-20 15:51                 ` Junio C Hamano

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