On 10/24/2013 10:51 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Michael Haggerty <mhag...@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> diff --git a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt 
>> b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
>> index ba1fe49..0e6d2ac 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/fetch-options.txt
>> @@ -61,11 +61,9 @@ endif::git-pull[]
>>  ifndef::git-pull[]
>>  -t::
>>  --tags::
>> -    This is a short-hand for giving `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`
>> -    refspec from the command line, to ask all tags to be fetched
>> -    and stored locally.  Because this acts as an explicit
>> -    refspec, the default refspecs (configured with the
>> -    remote.$name.fetch variable) are overridden and not used.
>> +    This is a short-hand requesting that all tags be fetched from
>> +    the remote in addition to whatever else is being fetched.  It
>> +    is similar to using the refspec `refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*`.
> 
> This is no longer a short-hand, is it?  There is no other way to ask
> "fetch the usual stuff, and then refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* as well".
> 
> It should be sufficient for me to locally do:
> 
>     s/This is a short-hand requesting/Request/;
> 
> I think.

Yes, that's better.

>> diff --git a/git-pull.sh b/git-pull.sh
>> index b946fd9..dac7e1c 100755
>> --- a/git-pull.sh
>> +++ b/git-pull.sh
>> @@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ error_on_no_merge_candidates () {
>>      do
>>              case "$opt" in
>>              -t|--t|--ta|--tag|--tags)
>> -                    echo "Fetching tags only, you probably meant:"
>> +                    echo "It doesn't make sense to pull tags; you probably 
>> meant:"
> 
> s/pull tags/pull all tags/; perhaps?

Yes, that's also an improvement.

Thanks,
Michael

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