From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 23:11:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git-fetch will leave a ref pointing to a tag
Message-ID: <7v4pkmwgda.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0707022207420.4071@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> 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.