Jeff King <[email protected]> writes: > I think it's a bit more complex because "git pull" uses "git fetch" > under the hood. In fact, your "git fetch origin master" is exactly what > gets run when you do: > > git pull origin master > > That's maybe OK. But I think one-off pulls like: > > git pull https://example.com/repo.git master > > probably wouldn't want it. I'd have to give it some thought.
I agree with both. If you have named remote, you presumably are keeping copies of their branches as remote-tracking branches, and it may be fine to follow tags. An explicit URL used for one-off should not grab anything but the named thing, I would think.
