If I remember correctly, "git push" has similar stuff.You need to run "git
push", then "git push --tags" to push your tags.I don't think you will get the
delta pushed with the --tags version.So I think it may be similar with fetch.
All my very best,Rob
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On Sunday, June 28, 2015 1:48 PM, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jun 2015, Aidan Van Dyk wrote:
> A normal "git fetch" will fetch tags that point to commits being
> fetched. So if you are fetching new histroy that has a tag pointing
> to it, that tag will be fetched with it. But by default, fetch only
> pulls "refs/heads/*" (branch namespace). Adding a "--tags" will
> make it fetch "refs/tags/*" too. This matters if tags are pushed to
> the remote that point to "historic" commits (ones you already have
> in your local repo).
ah, i figured it was something along those lines, thanks.
rday
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