Re: [PATCHv4 2/2] Documentation/clone: document ignored configuration variables

["SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 9:12 AM, SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> wrote:

>> diff --git a/Documentation/git-clone.txt b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>> index ec41d3d69..4f1e7d4ba 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/git-clone.txt
>> @@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ objects from the source repository into a pack in the cloned repository.
>>         values are given for the same key, each value will be written to
>>         the config file. This makes it safe, for example, to add
>>         additional fetch refspecs to the origin remote.
>> +       Note that due to limitations of the current implementation some
>> +       configuration variables don't take effect during the initial
>> +       fetch and checkout.  Configuration variables known to not take
>> +       effect are: `remote.<name>.mirror` and `remote.<name>.tagOpt`.
>
> We should add to that: "Instead supply the --mirror and --no-tags
> options, respectively".

I don't think we can do that in this patch right now.  This topic
branches off from c3808ca69 (preparing for 2.10.3, 2016-12-05), I
assume because, as a bugfix, it will be included in maintenance
releases for older releases, and those won't have the '--no-tags'
option.  Perhaps as a follow-up, only on master.