From: David Bohman <debohman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:47:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-2.51.0: Fetching tags does not work
Message-ID: <CAB9xhmPw6P1J2a3P+btUT1chhNQrhcx3pSkq+vqZbhFhCqcX9w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqcy8418me.fsf@gitster.g>

I am sorry to have to bring this up again, but I am still occasionally
seeing this problem with git 2.51.2.

What is happening is that I am cloning a repository as bare, and then
later I try to fetch the new content including the tags:

% ( cd bind9.git; git fetch --tags )
From https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9
 * branch                  HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
 ! [rejected]              stable     -> stable  (would clobber existing tag)
 * [new tag]               v9.18.41   -> v9.18.41
 * [new tag]               v9.20.15   -> v9.20.15
 * [new tag]               v9.21.14   -> v9.21.14
% ( cd bind9.git; git fetch --tags )
From https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9
 * branch                  HEAD       -> FETCH_HEAD
 ! [rejected]              stable     -> stable  (would clobber existing tag)
 * [new tag]               v9.18.41   -> v9.18.41
 * [new tag]               v9.20.15   -> v9.20.15
 * [new tag]               v9.21.14   -> v9.21.14
% print $?
1
% ( cd bind9.git; git tag ) | grep v9.20.15
%

As you can see, it is getting an error for one of the tags, but it is
also failing to record the other new tags into the repository.