Re: git fetch with refspec does not include tags?

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

I think it's a bit more complex because "git pull" uses "git fetch"
under the hood. In fact, your "git fetch origin master" is exactly what
gets run when you do:

  git pull origin master

That's maybe OK. But I think one-off pulls like:

  git pull https://example.com/repo.git master

probably wouldn't want it. I'd have to give it some thought.

I agree with both.  If you have named remote, you presumably are
keeping copies of their branches as remote-tracking branches, and it
may be fine to follow tags.  An explicit URL used for one-off should
not grab anything but the named thing, I would think.