From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@verizon.net>
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:59:08 GMT
Subject: [BUG} git-fetch - won't fetch wildcarded tags
Message-ID: <46BD25FC.1050201@verizon.net>

git fetch does not seem to handle refs/tags/* refspecs, at least no from 
bundles...

git>git bundle create /tmp/foo v1.5.2
<snip>
git>git ls-remote /tmp/foo
8b1e5575ab18757272e86c5ec7a10411bbaa3662        refs/tags/v1.5.2
git>git tag -d v1.5.2
Deleted tag v1.5.2.
git>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*'
* refusing to create funny ref 'tags/*' locally


Huh?

but...
git>git fetch /tmp/foo 'refs/tags/v1.5.2:refs/tags/v1.5.2'
* refs/tags/v1.5.2: storing tag 'v1.5.2' of /tmp/foo
  tag: 8b1e557

What's going on? This is a severe limitation of the utility of bundles 
to transmit tagged versions.

Mark