Hi, I just searched the List to see if there were any postings on "fetch --tags", because I was recently thrown for a loop by the fact the this command retrieves only tags (and commits needed to fulfill them). So I was very happy to find this discussion. I was actually trying to figure out whether the observed behavior is a bug, given that there is no mention of it in the documentation. Perhaps it will be useful to say what would have been most helpful for me. In the current documentation for "fetch --tags", one sentence reads, "This flag lets all tags and their associated objects be downloaded." The following small modification would, IMO, be sufficient: "This flag causes all tags and their associated objects (only) to be downloaded." Now I have a related question. I always want to retrieve all tags from tracking branches when I do a "git pull". Right now, if I want to do this, it seem (unless I am missing something) that I have to do "git fetch --tags; git fetch; git merge". Is there a way I can put something into my .git/config file so that I get this effect simply by doing a "git pull"? That's what I was trying to do when I added "tagopt = --tags". Thanks, -P. -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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