From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:35:57 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: option to not fetch tags for 'git remote' branches
Message-ID: <20100324213557.GA15639@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <4BAA7F5B.2040400@feurix.com>

On 2010.03.24 22:08:43 +0100, John Feuerstein wrote:
> Hello Frans,
> 
> > It would be great to be able to tell 'git remote' to skip tags and only 
> > fetch the requested branch. A --no-tags option maybe?
> > 
> > AFAIK this is currently not possible, although I'd happy to be proven 
> > wrong.
> 
> have a look at -n, --no-tags provided by git-fetch, ie.
> 
> $ git remote add ... foo ...
> $ git fetch -n foo

And you can set remote.<name>.tagopt to --no-tags to make that the
default.

Björn