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From: Peter Shenkin <shenkin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:41:09 +0000 (UTC)
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Michael Witten <mfwitten <at> gmail.com> writes:
 
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 20:22, Peter Shenkin <shenkin <at> gmail.com> wrote:
>     [--tags] is merely a shorthand for writing the refspec
>     `refs/tags/\*:refs/tags/\*'; that is,

Yes, I understand that fully and it makes perfect sense.

But it leaves unexplained and undocumented the fact
that the user's specification of an *additional* refspec is
observed if the additional refspec is given on the
command line but ignored if the additional refspec is
given in the config file.

-P.