Re: Notes on Using Git with Subprojects

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:58:55PM -0400, Shawn Pearce wrote:

If you are fetching a set of commits from a repository you probably
should be fetching any tags that point at the commits you've fetched.
They tend to be few compared to the commits, they tend to be small,
and they tend to be important milestones in the tracked project.

I think that's why the native Git protocol sends tags for any
commits that were also sent.  :)

Oh, that's clever. :)

Do we do the right thing for non-git transports?

-Peff