Re: [BUG] git fetch fetches tags matching negative refspec

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 12, 2022, 23:09 UTC
Message-ID: <221013.865ygomybw.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CA+JQ7M-y9d=c3GbpAs+Y4qtimtVs9oQ6BU1YL8nmFmF=rZxKag@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 12 2022, Erik Cervin Edin wrote:

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> On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:13 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
> <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I.e. it got stuff you asked for, but also tags pointing at the main
>> history, --no-tags will stop that, at which point you can *also* fetch
>> tags, just with the refspec.
> I tried but
>   git fetch --no-tags
> with negative refspec did not fetch any tags.
>   git fetch --tags
> does.

Because your refspec doesn't include refs/tags/*:, try e.g.:

	git fetch https://github.com/git/git.git 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' --no-tags --dry-run

That's what "--no-tags", i.e. it's per-se (and confusingly) nothing to do with whether you get tags or not, it's to do with whether we to tag following.

> I'm going to set
>   git config remote.origin.tagopt --tags
> and then that's going to do what I want.

Isn't that going to give you also the tags you don't want?