Feature request: option to not fetch tags for 'git remote' branches

I'm sometimes asked to build a kernel or rebase patches against a certain development repository. No problem, happy to do that.

Except that some of those repos have huge numbers of tags that I'm not interested in and which only muddy the tags from the "origin" repo and my own.

I mostly want to remove the remote again ASAP and having to semi-manually remove the unwanted tags afterwards is a nuisance.

Example (on top of kernel mainline):
$ git remote add -t master iwlwifi \
	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/iwlwifi-2.6.git
This results in the addition of 326 'master-<date>' tags, 70 'merge-<date>' 
tags and 6 'snapshot-<date>' tags.
Similar effects for example from Ingo's "tip" repository.

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.

Cheers, FJP