Re: git fetch --reference?

"Michael K. Edwards" [off-list ref] writes:

On 11/14/06, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I am somewhat doubtful that this is common enough to warrant
adding an extra option to "git fetch", but you could add
alternates to these new reference object stores before
initiating the fetch.
...

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.  I can just set up a "tracking"
tree where I don't attempt any merges, include it in the alternates
for each working tree, and "git fetch" in the tracking tree when it's
convenient.  Now, will tags from the tracking tree propagate into the
working trees?

For the working trees, if you "fetch" from the tracking tree
using short-hand, just like you "fetch" from the origin using
short-hand, tags will be followed, I think.