Re: fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch> fetches tags?

Brandon Casey [off-list ref] writes:

I expect these to fetch tags automatically (and they do):

   git fetch
   git pull
   git fetch <repo>
   git pull <repo>

I expect these to _not_ fetch tags (and they don't):

   git fetch <repo> <branch>
   git pull <repo> <branch>

But, I did not expect these to fetch tags:

   git fetch <repo> <branch>:<branch>
   git pull <repo> <branch>:<branch>

Sigh... that matches my expectation.

Did we break it when we overhauled "git fetch", or was this an
independent "improvement" that happened long before that?