# Shouldn't git fetch also fetch the tags? 2 messages from 2010-09-20 to 2010-09-21. Participants: Felipe Contreras, Kevin Ballard. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25175 ## Felipe Contreras, 2010-09-20 23:00 Subject: Shouldn't git fetch also fetch the tags? Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTinb%3Dg%3DY%3Ds9AqPtLEOqMxPJVqFxRa_2cB4%3DiNZ4k%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, Usually when I do 'git fetch' the tags are fetched too, however, there is one repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y Where it doesn't happen, and I manually have to 'git fetch --tags'. What's going on? -- Felipe Contreras ``` ## Kevin Ballard, 2010-09-21 01:03 Subject: Re: Shouldn't git fetch also fetch the tags? Message-ID: <4A6D7554-6CDD-4A92-9E90-27CF555A44CF@sb.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4A6D7554-6CDD-4A92-9E90-27CF555A44CF%40sb.org In-Reply-To: ``` `git fetch` will fetch any tags that are reachable from any refs that were fetched. It will not fetch tags that are not otherwise reachable. `git fetch --tags` explicitly instructs git fetch to fetch all tags. -Kevin Ballard On Sep 20, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Hi, > > Usually when I do 'git fetch' the tags are fetched too, however, there > is one repo: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.35.y > > Where it doesn't happen, and I manually have to 'git fetch --tags'. > > What's going on? > > -- > Felipe Contreras > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html ```