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

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FPFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date
Mar 24, 2010, 21:46 UTC
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On Wednesday 24 March 2010, John Feuerstein wrote:
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> > 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

Thanks John. I'll need to test if that's persistent, or that I'll have to remember to specify it with each fetch. I guess the option is also recognized by 'git remote update'?

Ahh. I've just found 'remote.<name>.tagopt' in 'man git-config'. I still think it would be nice if that could be set with an option for 'git remote add'. That would make life so much simpler :-)

Cheers, FJP

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  2. John FeuersteinMar 24, 2010
  3. Björn SteinbrinkMar 24, 2010
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  5. Samuel TardieuMar 27, 2010
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