From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:09:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature request: option to not fetch tags for 'git remote' branches
Message-ID: <201003301009.29412.elendil@planet.nl>
In-Reply-To: <2010-03-27-20-10-25+trackit+sam@rfc1149.net>

On Saturday 27 March 2010, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> Add a '--no-tags' option to 'git remote add' which adds a
> 'remote.REMOTE.tagopt = --no-tags' to the configuration file.
>
> 'git add -f -n REMOTE' will create a new remote and fetch from it
> without importing the tags. Subsequent 'git fetch REMOTE' will also
> not import the tags.

Not tested, but looks as if it will do exactly what I had in mind. Thanks!