{"thread":{"id":"9480","subject":"[BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags","startedAt":"2007-08-11T02:59:08Z","lastAt":"2007-08-11T04:14:15Z","messageCount":3,"participants":["Mark Levedahl","Junio C Hamano"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"50454","messageId":"46BD25FC.1050201@verizon.net","threadId":"9480","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags","fromName":"Mark Levedahl","fromEmail":"mlevedahl@verizon.net","sentAt":"2007-08-11T02:59:08Z","receivedAt":"2007-08-11T02:59:08Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mlevedahl@verizon.net","avatar":null},"body":"git fetch does not seem to handle refs/tags/* refspecs, at least no from \nbundles...\n\ngit>git bundle create /tmp/foo v1.5.2\n<snip>\ngit>git ls-remote /tmp/foo\n8b1e5575ab18757272e86c5ec7a10411bbaa3662        refs/tags/v1.5.2\ngit>git tag -d v1.5.2\nDeleted tag v1.5.2.\ngit>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'\n* refusing to create funny ref 'tags/*' locally\n\n\nHuh?\n\nbut...\ngit>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/v1.5.2:refs/tags/v1.5.2'\n* refs/tags/v1.5.2: storing tag 'v1.5.2' of /tmp/foo\n  tag: 8b1e557\n\nWhat's going on? This is a severe limitation of the utility of bundles \nto transmit tagged versions.\n\nMark\n"},{"id":"50455","messageId":"46BD2C29.3040002@gmail.com","threadId":"9480","inReplyTo":"46BD25FC.1050201@verizon.net","subject":"Re: [BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags","fromName":"Mark Levedahl","fromEmail":"mlevedahl@gmail.com","sentAt":"2007-08-11T03:25:29Z","receivedAt":"2007-08-11T03:25:29Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"mdl123@verizon.net","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/5302462?v=4"},"body":"Mark Levedahl wrote:\n> git fetch does not seem to handle refs/tags/* refspecs, at least no \n> from bundles...\n>\ngroan - Never mind\ngit fetch -t /tmp/foo\n"},{"id":"50456","messageId":"7vd4xur9m0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net","threadId":"9480","inReplyTo":"46BD25FC.1050201@verizon.net","subject":"Re: [BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags","fromName":"Junio C Hamano","fromEmail":"gitster@pobox.com","sentAt":"2007-08-11T04:14:15Z","receivedAt":"2007-08-11T04:14:15Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"gitster@pobox.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54884?v=4"},"body":"Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@verizon.net> writes:\n\n> git>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'\n> * refusing to create funny ref 'tags/*' locally\n\nI think fetch's wildcard is effective only in the config file,\nand this is not just tags.  It would be nice if you could say\n\n\t$ git fetch foo.bndl 'refs/*:refs/*'\n"}]}