From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 02:01:28 GMT
Subject: Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote
Message-ID: <7vmywxjytj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910708111850v6e9669c3i536fba49f63d0f10@mail.gmail.com>

"Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/11/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> "Jon Smirl" <jonsmirl@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > What's the syntax for checking out a specific tag on a remote?
>>
>> This depends on where you stored the tags you obtained from the
>> remote.  By default, "git fetch --tags" would store the tags in
>> a flat namespace; there is no "remote tag" namespace.
>
> I've been storing unrelated trees in the same git db. It never
> occurred to me that there was a single tag name space. So if two of my
> remotes both make a tag TEST then last one fetched will win? Are
> "remote tag" namespaces planned for the future?

There actually is no need to plan anything.

Typically people do not publish "private" tags to require such a
layout to differentiate tags from 47 different sources, so we
have never talked about this, but you can look into .git/config
file in your repository, and adjust [remote "foo"] fetch lines
to your specific taste.  e.g.

	[remote "a"]
        	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/a/*
                fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/remote-tags/a/*

	[remote "b"]
        	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/b/*
                fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/remote-tags/b/*