Re: Cogito: cg-clone doesn't like packed tag objects

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] writes:

Yes, it would work, but I really think that there's no downside to just 
having a

	git fetch --tags <dest>

since that's just a few lines of trivial code, with no special cases.

I do not oppose that idea.  I was just trying to point out that
'git fetch --tags' does not solve what Pasky wants to do -- in
his ideal world, people track branches, and tags that refer to
objects that are on those tracked branches are automatically
fetched; at the same time tags irrelevant to the tracked
branches are not fetched at all.  'git fetch --tags' would
require the user to slurp in objects on branches she is not
interested in.