working with linux-next ... must tags be fetched separately?

[rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day)]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Harsh Jain wrote:

> Hi,
>
> git fetch --tags linux-next
>
> Will only fetch the tags not changed files content/data.
>
> To fetch file changes
> git fetch linux-next
>
> Is required.
>
>
>
> On 28 June 2015 14:59:15 GMT+05:30, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>   perusing the current instructions on how to work with linux-next
> here:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/linux-next.html
> and i'm puzzled by this part of the instructions:
>  Fetch linux-next plus tags
>     $ git fetch linux-next
>     ...
>     $ git fetch --tags linux-next
>     ...
> is it really necessary to run two separate fetch commands? from the
> man page for git-fetch, one reads:
>        -t, --tags
>            Fetch all tags from the remote (i.e., fetch remote tags refs/tags/* into local tags with
>            the same name), in addition to whatever else would otherwise be fetched.
> so would it not be sufficient to run simply:
>     $ git fetch --tags linux-next
> or am i misreading something?
> rday

  that suggests that the man page is slightly misleading, given that
it clearly states that "--tags" will fetch tags, "in addition to
whatever else would otherwise be fetched." or is there a different way
to read that phrase?

rday

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