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[git.git] / Documentation / fetch-options.txt

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        option old data in `.git/FETCH_HEAD` will be overwritten.
 
 -f, \--force::
+       When `git-fetch` is used with `<rbranch>:<lbranch>`
+       refspec, it refuses to update the local branch
+       `<lbranch>` unless the remote branch `<rbranch>` it
+       fetches is a descendant of `<lbranch>`.  This option
+       overrides that check.
 
 -t, \--tags::
        By default, the git core utilities will not fetch and store
        tags under the same name as the remote repository;  ask it
-       to do so using `--tags`.
+       to do so using `--tags`.  Using this option will bound the
+       list of objects pulled to the remote tags.  Commits in branches
+       beyond the tags will be ignored.
 
 -u, \--update-head-ok::
        By default `git-fetch` refuses to update the head which