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Shouldn't git fetch also fetch the tags?

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 20, 2010, 23:00 UTC
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Hi,

Usually when I do 'git fetch' the tags are fetched too, however, there is one repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y

Where it doesn't happen, and I manually have to 'git fetch --tags'.
What's going on?
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Felipe Contreras
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  1. Felipe ContrerasSep 20, 2010
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