Re: BUG: For first push to a bare repo, using "--tags" prevents creation of master branch

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

You did not provide any refspec (you provided <repository> but not
<refspec>), hence --tags pushes only tags. So, this is the expected
behavior.

Right.

That said, we may want to add an option like --tags-also that would push
tags _in addition_ to what would normally be pushed. --follow-tags does
more or less this, though, but only for annotated tags pointing at a ref
being pushed.

Yeah.  I am not sure --tags-also is necessarily a good thing (I do
not think "fetch --tags" is a good thing, either).  If --follow-tags
does not touch lightweight ones, that may be a bug we would want to
fix.  I did not mean to implement --follow-tags that way, and I do
not offhand remember if there was a reason to omit lightweight ones.

Thanks.