git-2.51.0: Fetching tags does not work

From: David Bohman <debohman@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 6, 2025, 00:30 UTC
Message-ID: <CAB9xhmPcHnB2+i6WeA3doAinv7RAeGs04+n0fHLGToJq=UKUNw@mail.gmail.com>

This is into a bare repository:

git fetch --tags

The command notates the tags it will update, but they do not get added to the repository.

I reverted to git-2.50.1, and the problem went away. This is a regression in git-2.51.0.

David Bohman

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