Re: missing tags from "git fetch"

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Oct 2, 2019, 13:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20191002135518.GA3599@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.20.1910021431130.32588@cpza.bfz-tzou.qr>

On Wed, Oct 02, 2019 at 03:10:12PM +0200, Martin Nicolay wrote:

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> I don't know if this is a lack of understanding or a software or
> documentation bug.
> 
> man git-fetch says about tags:
>        By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is
>        also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that point at branches that
>        you are interested in.
> 
> If I fetch without --tags the tags that point to the commits of the fetched
> branch are not fetched. If I fetch with --tags than all tags are fetched but
> I only wish to fetch tags pointing to something in the branch fetched.

It's a documentation bug, I think. We won't auto-follow tags when fetching into FETCH_HEAD (but this is further confused by the fact that fetching into FETCH_HEAD will auto-update a tracking ref).

So instead of this:

> $ git fetch origin master

try this:

  $ git fetch origin

or even this:

  $ git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master

There's more discussion in this thread (but it looks like no patches ever came out of it):

  https://public-inbox.org/git/20170817092853.hteuzni5lxia4ejf@sigill.intra.peff.net/

-Peff