Re: syntax for checking out specific tag on a remote
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Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
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- Aug 12, 2007, 01:57 UTC
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On 8/11/07, Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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?
This seems inconsistent to me. Remote heads have their own namespace but remote tags don't.
-- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com