From: Giuseppe Crinò <giuscri@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:08:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Retrieve version-string on shallow clone
Message-ID: <20190902140854.GA3806@instance-1.europe-west6-a.c.vaulted-journal-250706.internal>

> I'd figure one of these options would be to clone everything from tag
> v2.0.0 onward, but if so how would I do that?
> As another option I was thinking; maybe it's possible to do git describe
> --tags on the remote repo?


To my understanding both questions are solved by

* https://stackoverflow.com/a/47720414/2219670
* https://stackoverflow.com/a/12704727/2219670

It seems to me that's the expected behaviour of git

-Giuseppe