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diff --git a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt index a9e86fd26b..5fbeab76b7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-fetch.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-fetch.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-fetch(1) NAME ---- -git-fetch - Download objects and a head from another repository +git-fetch - Download objects and refs from another repository SYNOPSIS @@ -20,6 +20,14 @@ The ref names and their object names of fetched refs are stored in `.git/FETCH_HEAD`. This information is left for a later merge operation done by "git merge". +When <refspec> stores the fetched result in tracking branches, +the tags that point at these branches are automatically +followed. This is done by first fetching from the remote using +the given <refspec>s, and if the repository has objects that are +pointed by remote tags that it does not yet have, then fetch +those missing tags. If the other end has tags that point at +branches you are not interested in, you will not get them. + OPTIONS ------- |