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

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:

Perhaps a justification is that annotated tags are clearly meant to be
public while lightweight tags can also be used as private bookmarks.

Ah, thanks.  That makes perfect sense.

In any case, the fact that it's been this way and documented this way
since 2013 makes it a bit hard to change now.

That too.

I recall "fetch --tags" was updated to become your "--tags-also" by
e66ef7ae (Merge branch 'mh/fetch-tags-in-addition-to-normal-refs',
2013-12-12).  Perhaps we should do the same on the push side.