Re: [RFC] On how to manage tags fetched from remote?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 19, 2008, 02:43 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <91b13c310811181827y4e37815egaa34ba164d9f4269@mail.gmail.com>

"rae l" <crquan@gmail.com> writes:

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> I use one git working tree to track many remote git repository:
> ...
> 2. Store a no-tags config item to the remote config, which like:
>   [remote "linux-iscsi"]
> 	url = git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mnc/linux-2.6-iscsi.git
> 	fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/linux-iscsi/*
> 	fetch-tags = false
>   when git fetch read the no-tags config, it will disable tags from this remote;

Slurping very many (possibly unrelated) projects into one repository is your choice (I wouldn't comment if it is a sane choice -- I do not have time to ponder the pros and cons. If it suits your needs, that's good enough) If you do not want tags from some repositories but do want from some others copied to that repository, per remote configuration feature is exactly how it was designed to be used.