fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?

Is this the intended behavior?

I'm pretty sure this was discussed recently on the list. My understanding was that tags would only be fetched automatically if a remote tracking branch was configured.

$ cat .git/config
[core]
        repositoryformatversion = 0
        filemode = true
        bare = false
        logallrefupdates = true

I expect these to fetch tags automatically (and they do):

   git fetch
   git pull
   git fetch <repo>
   git pull <repo>

I expect these to _not_ fetch tags (and they don't):

   git fetch <repo> <branch>
   git pull <repo> <branch>

But, I did not expect these to fetch tags:

   git fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch>
   git pull <repo> <branch>:<branch>

The association I am making here is between manually specifying the repo and branch implying "don't automatically fetch tags", and fetch/pull automatically determining the branch (and repo) implying "automatically fetch tags".

There is nothing automatic about that last form of fetch.

I know there is --no-tags, and I know I can do

   git fetch <repo> <branch>
   git branch <branch> FETCH_HEAD

But neither are what I expected to have to do. So I guess the colon notation implies remote tracking? I'm not sure I want the tags by default when I call fetch this way. In this instance I definitely did not want them.

-brandon