Re: [PATCH] git fetch one tag only

> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:40 PM, cheng renquan <crquan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Someone maybe like me is working in the way of following one central
>> git repository
>> while sometimes need to fetch some code or tags from a 3rd git repo,
>> but unfortunately the 3rd repo may contain a lot of tags not all I want
>> to fetch to mess up my local repo, at this time I want to fetch only one tag
>> from the 3rd repo, but the syntax of
>>  `git fetch 3rd-repo the-tag-name`
>>
>> really fetched the code of the-tag-name from 3rd-repo, but forgot the
>> tag itself;
>
>
> The subject of "forgot" in that sentence is you, not "git fetch".
> You told "git fetch" to grab it but not store it locally in your
> refs/tags namespace.
>
> There is a convenience short-hand "tag <tagname>", i.e.
>
>   git fetch 3rd-repo tag the-tag-name
>
> that is equivalent to
>
>   git fetch 3rd-repo refs/tags/the-tag-name:refs/tags/the-tag-name
>
> So I do not think your patch is necessary for your use case, and
> obviously it will
> break other people's use case where they just want to fetch (and inspect what is
> left in FETCH_HEAD) but do not want to store.