From: Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 15:10:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG] git fetch fetches tags matching negative refspec
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On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:13 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
<avarab@gmail.com> wrote:
> I.e. it got stuff you asked for, but also tags pointing at the main
> history, --no-tags will stop that, at which point you can *also* fetch
> tags, just with the refspec.
I tried but
  git fetch --no-tags
with negative refspec did not fetch any tags.
  git fetch --tags
does.

I'm going to set
  git config remote.origin.tagopt --tags
and then that's going to do what I want.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction and giving clarity.

> I haven't had time to try this, but I believe this isn't a bug, it's
> just that you didn't supply --no-tags.
I guess then everything works as expected but maybe the documentation
regarding this could be improved.