From: Linus Torvalds Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:44:49 GMT Subject: Re: The msysGit Herald, issue 2 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > 6) What was the most frustrating moment when working with Git? > > Just the other day, I wanted to fetch a set of changes from a public > repo into my test repo in order to cherry-pick from them - and it > automatically fetched all the tags. But, the heck, I don't want them tags > here, just the commits. I just can't figure out how to avoid the automatic > fetching of tags. The way this was *supposed* to work is that if you are not fetching a "tracking branch", it should not fetch any tags. Maybe this got broken lately? Or maybe you did fetch a tracking branch? Anyway, I fetch stuff all the time, and if git were to fetch the tags too, I'd be *really* unhappy. So either the people I work with are just good people, or more likely it still works the way it's supposed to work: if you just fetch into FETCH_HEAD (by explicitly giving the remote repository name, and not using tracking branches), it should not fetch tags for you. Linus