{"thread":{"id":"25175","subject":"Shouldn't git fetch also fetch the tags?","startedAt":"2010-09-20T23:00:37Z","lastAt":"2010-09-21T01:03:25Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Felipe Contreras","Kevin Ballard"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"151168","messageId":"AANLkTinb=g=Y=s9AqPtLEOqMxPJVqFxRa_2cB4=iNZ4k@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"25175","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Shouldn't git fetch also fetch the tags?","fromName":"Felipe Contreras","fromEmail":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-09-20T23:00:37Z","receivedAt":"2010-09-20T23:00:37Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"felipe.contreras@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/8358?v=4"},"body":"Hi,\n\nUsually when I do 'git fetch' the tags are fetched too, however, there\nis one repo:\ngit://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y\n\nWhere it doesn't happen, and I manually have to 'git fetch --tags'.\n\nWhat's going on?\n\n-- \nFelipe Contreras\n"},{"id":"151175","messageId":"4A6D7554-6CDD-4A92-9E90-27CF555A44CF@sb.org","threadId":"25175","inReplyTo":"AANLkTinb=g=Y=s9AqPtLEOqMxPJVqFxRa_2cB4=iNZ4k@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Shouldn't git fetch also fetch the tags?","fromName":"Kevin Ballard","fromEmail":"kevin@sb.org","sentAt":"2010-09-21T01:03:25Z","receivedAt":"2010-09-21T01:03:25Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kevin@sb.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/714?v=4"},"body":"`git fetch` will fetch any tags that are reachable from any refs that were fetched. It will not fetch tags that are not otherwise reachable. `git fetch --tags` explicitly instructs git fetch to fetch all tags.\n\n-Kevin Ballard\n\nOn Sep 20, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote:\n\n> Hi,\n> \n> Usually when I do 'git fetch' the tags are fetched too, however, there\n> is one repo:\n> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y\n> \n> Where it doesn't happen, and I manually have to 'git fetch --tags'.\n> \n> What's going on?\n> \n> -- \n> Felipe Contreras\n> --\n> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line \"unsubscribe git\" in\n> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org\n> More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html\n"}]}