Andreas, After get it working, I did an experiment where I hard-resetted my local repo to v1.2.3, git-pruned and removed the v1.2.4 tag. A git pull with the git protocol does indeed pick up the tag. Thanks for explaining what's going on under the hood. Everything now makes sense to me! David On 3/7/06, Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > With the git or git+ssh protocol, tags will be autofollowed when you do > a pull (only signed tags, I think). The auto-following is done by > detecting tags that are fetched, so when you did a pull using rsync the > tags weren't auto-followed but you got all the commits. Next, when you > changed protocol to git:// you already had all the commit objects, so > there was nothing to auto-detect tags on. Since you're using git:// now > it should work as advertised in the future though. - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html