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Re: git-fetch will leave a ref pointing to a tag

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Jul 2, 2007, 23:11 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
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> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, linux@horizon.com wrote:
>
>> $ git branch temp tags/v2.6.22-rc6
>> $ git fetch . tags/v2.6.22-rc7:temp
> ...
> No. It is perfectly sane to fetch a tag, and to store it.
Yes, but not to a branch.

Anything under refs/heads/ should point at a commit and if we allowed a tag to be pointed at, you probably can argue that is a bug.

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