I've got a repo here which is missing oldish tags, so I:

   $ git pull -t
   Warning: No merge candidate found because value of config option
	    "branch.master.merge" does not match any remote branch fetched.
   No changes.

Both "git pull --help" and git-pull(1) say this should work.
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Ah, that's because git-pull documentation shares large part of
the source with git-fetch (the part that talk about --tags is
coming from a single file, pull-fetch-param.txt).

It really shouldn't.  Fetching all tags and merging them all to
your current branch does not make any sense.


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