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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