Bug Report - Pull remote branch does not retrieve new tags

What happens:
When I create a new tag on the remote (changing nothing else)
"git pull origin master" produces the following:
  From git.internal.company.com:team/testrepo
   * branch            master     -> FETCH_HEAD
  Already up-to-date.

If I instead do a "git pull" I get:
  From git.internal.company.com:team/testrepo
   * [new tag]         Testing11  -> Testing11
  Already up-to-date.

What I think should happen: The "git pull origin master" should retrieve the tag.

This is with 2.16.2.windows.1, but also occurred on my previously installed version (2.12.2.windows.2)

My understanding is that "git pull" and "git pull $repo $currentbranch" should function identically.

Is this a bug, or am I misunderstanding the manual page?

Thanks,

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