Pulling tags from git.git

Hi,

I have been trying to pull from the git repo via rsync. 
(rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git)  I got all the commits
up to today but the tags since my initial cloning are missing.

I tried git pull --tags, I still only have old tags.
I switched to using the git protocol but that failed too.

git ls-remotes --tags showed, as expected, all the tags up to 1.2.4.

Is there a switch I missed?

Regards,
David