From: Kirill Likhodedov <kirill.likhodedov@jetbrains.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 19:20:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Is it possible to list unpushed tags without accessing remote?
Message-ID: <5968CD7E-9E90-422C-B4F7-C0151FDEB1B4@jetbrains.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqlhsj4hmq.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>


On 26 Jun 2014, at 23:04 , Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
> 
>> Not by default, but it is easy to configure your clone to fetch tags to
>> a separate namespace.
> 
> But then in order to learn what tags the remote has, you need to
> talk to the remote and it won't be "complately a local" operation
> anymore, no?

If I understand the solution correctly, it looks like it is not needed, if I’m OK with knowing which tags the remote had during the last fetch. 

Just like with commits: 'git log origin/master..’ can give me incorrect results if e.g. commits were rebased on the remote site. But we usually ignore such possibility as improbable.