- * For any refs that we happen to be fetching via command-line
- * arguments, take the opportunity to update their configured
- * counterparts. However, we do not want to mention these
- * entries in FETCH_HEAD at all, as they would simply be
- * duplicates of existing entries.
+ * For any refs that we happen to be fetching via
+ * command-line arguments, the destination ref might
+ * have been missing or have been different than the
+ * remote-tracking ref that would be derived from the
+ * configured refspec. In these cases, we want to
+ * take the opportunity to update their configured
+ * remote-tracking reference. However, we do not want
+ * to mention these entries in FETCH_HEAD at all, as
+ * they would simply be duplicates of existing
+ * entries, so we set them FETCH_HEAD_IGNORE below.
+ *
+ * We compute these entries now, based only on the
+ * refspecs specified on the command line. But we add
+ * them to the list following the refspecs resulting
+ * from the tags option so that one of the latter,
+ * which has FETCH_HEAD_NOT_FOR_MERGE, is not removed
+ * by ref_remove_duplicates() in favor of one of these
+ * opportunistic entries with FETCH_HEAD_IGNORE.