From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:19:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: follow tag only when tracking remote branch.
Message-ID: <43FCD56E.5090804@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <7vfymbm72x.fsf_-_@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Unless --no-tags flag was given, git-fetch tried to always
> follow remote tags that point at the commits we picked up.
> 
> It is not very useful to pick up tags from remote unless storing
> the fetched branch head in a local tracking branch.  This is
> especially true if the fetch is done to merge the remote branch
> into our current branch as one-shot basis (i.e. "please pull"),
> and is even harmful if the remote repository has many irrelevant
> tags.
> 
> This proposed update disables the automated tag following unless
> we are storing the a fetched branch head in a local tracking
> branch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
> 
> ---
> 
>  * Likes, dislikes?
> 

Likes a lot. This is a Good Thing.

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