On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 12:06:17, Michael Haggerty wrote: >On 02/19/2014 11:58 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> >> Looking at it from one more angle, `git fetch r --tags` and >> `git push r --tags` is now no longer symmetric :( > >I'm glad you brought this up, because I didn't really think about >whether "git push" would need changes parallel to those in "git fetch". > >I use "git push" in very conservative ways, so I don't know its ins and >outs. What scenarios do you find asymmetric? Were they more symmetric >before?
`git push r --tags` pushes only tags, and `git fetch r --tags` only fetched tags. Starting from 1.9.0, `git fetch r --tags`, according to the release summary, changed to "tags and other things". That's the asymmetric change I find. It is, as you say, undesirable to have `git push r --tags` push more than tags, which is why I am objecting (acknowledging it's after-the-fact) that the change to git-fetch was so-so. A new option `git fetch r --only-tags` could remedy the hard-to-remember syntax `git fetch r "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"`, though it would not fix the asymmetry. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
