Re: [PATCH] Clarify that '--tags' fetches tags only

Peter Shenkin [off-list ref] writes:

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Now I have a related question. I always want to retrieve all
tags from tracking branches when I do a "git pull". Right now,
if I want to do this, it seem (unless I am missing something)
that I have to do "git fetch --tags; git fetch;  git merge". Is
there a way I can put something into my .git/config file so
that I get this effect simply by doing a "git pull"? That's
what I was trying to do when I added "tagopt = --tags".

Actually fetching of branches on remote into remote-tracking branches
would also fetch all tags that point to commits on fetched branches
(so called "autofollow" feature).

If you want to fetch _all_ tags, you need to configure fetched
branches (e.g. via glob refspec). I think that then "tagopt = --tags"
works as expected then, as it is in addition to refspec not as the
only refspec; "fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*" should work as well.

HTH
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Jakub Narębski