Jan Engelhardt <jeng...@inai.de> writes:
> The release notes for 1.9.0 read:
>
>> * The "--tags" option to "git fetch" no longer tells the command to
>> fetch _only_ the tags. It instead fetches tags _in addition to_
>> what are fetched by the same command line without the option.
>
> I think the release notes should also say -- like it was done
> extensively for git add -- how to get back the old
> behavior (perhaps through now-different commands).
Perhaps, but the release note is not a place to repeat what the
documentation already teaches---it primarily is to enumerate the
changed areas, to highlight the things users may want to look up in the
documentation, to give them a starting point.
You would do something like this, I would think:
git fetch $there 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
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