From: Daniel Johnson <computerdruid@gmail.com>
To: Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:14:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <119711285.RuumktFLOq@hyperion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316649176-32352-1-git-send-email-anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>
On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 04:52:56 PM Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> @@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ ifndef::git-pull[]
> flag lets all tags and their associated objects be
> downloaded. The default behavior for a remote may be
> specified with the remote.<name>.tagopt setting. See
> - linkgit:git-config[1].
> + linkgit:git-config[1]. Note that if this option is specified
> + then only tags are fetched, refs under refs/heads/* stay unchanged.
I like this clarification. It would be better placed before the note about the
tagopt setting, as it clarifies the statement before that ("This flag lets all
tags and their associated objects be downloaded.")
In fact, the optimal solution might be to rework that sentence with the
clarification from yours, so something like "This flag lets all tags and their
associated objects be downloaded instead of"...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-02 21:04 [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Anatol Pomozov
2011-09-02 21:18 ` Drew Northup
2011-09-21 23:52 ` Anatol Pomozov
2011-09-22 0:13 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 0:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 2:01 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 2:07 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 3:13 ` Andrew Ardill
2011-09-22 3:24 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 3:39 ` [PATCH] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch' Michael Witten
2011-09-22 3:48 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 4:28 ` [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 7:23 ` [PATCH v3] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch' Michael Witten
2011-09-22 17:10 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 17:35 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 17:38 ` Michael Witten
2011-09-22 4:00 ` [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Junio C Hamano
2011-09-22 4:17 ` [PATCH v2] Docs: Clarify the --tags option of `git fetch' Michael Witten
2011-09-22 1:14 ` Daniel Johnson [this message]
2011-09-30 2:51 ` [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only Peter Shenkin
2011-09-30 8:44 ` Jakub Narebski
2011-09-30 13:23 ` Michael Witten
2011-10-01 5:40 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 14:11 ` Michael Witten
2011-10-01 17:16 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 18:45 ` Michael Witten
2011-10-01 20:22 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 20:56 ` Michael Witten
2011-10-01 21:41 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-10-01 22:06 ` Peter Shenkin
2011-09-30 18:37 ` Junio C Hamano
2011-10-01 5:51 ` Peter Shenkin
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