Re: Git Tags

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 29, 2018, 15:09 UTC
Message-ID: <87woovyl6i.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c8fc0da2-c3ff-4985-e4a2-a066a3a6f2af@peter-speer.de>

On Thu, Nov 29 2018, Stefanie Leisestreichler wrote:

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> Hi.
>
> I have done this (on box A):
>
> git commit -m "Message"
> git tag -a 0.9.0
> git push origin master
>
> In my local repository, when I run "git tag" it is showing me "0.9.0".
>
> Then I did (on box B)
> git clone ssh://user@host:/path/project.git
> cd project
> git tag
>
> Now git tag is showing nothing.
>
> Why is the tag only available in my local repository?
>
> Also when I try to
> git clone --branch 0.9.0 ssh://user@host:/path/project.git
> it tells me: fatal:remote branch not found in upstream repository origin

Because --branch <name> means get refs/heads/<name>, tags are not branches. However, because we're apparently quite loose about this in the clone/fetch code this does give you the tag if it exists, but probably not in the way you expect.

We interpret the argument as a branch, and will get not only this tag but "follow" (see --no-tags in git-fetch(1)) the tag as though it were a branch and give you all tags leading up to that one. This would give you a single tag:

    git clone --no-tags --branch v2.19.0 --single-branch https://github.com/git/git.git

But this is a more direct way to do it:

    git init git; git -C git fetch --no-tags https://github.com/git/git.git tag v2.19.0

Which'll since you said it failed that's because you haven't pushed the tag. Try 'git ls-remote <url>' to see if it's there (it's not).