Re: git-fetch will leave a ref pointing to a tag

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Hi,

On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, linux@horizon.com wrote:

quoted

$ git branch temp tags/v2.6.22-rc6
$ git fetch . tags/v2.6.22-rc7:temp

...
No. It is perfectly sane to fetch a tag, and to store it.

Yes, but not to a branch.

Anything under refs/heads/ should point at a commit and if we
allowed a tag to be pointed at, you probably can argue that is a
bug.