On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 11:29:48AM +0000, Carlsson, Magnus wrote: > > 2. If we continue to follow the "are we storing any refs" rule for the > > default, possibly it should expand to "did we store anything, > > including opportunistic tracking-ref updates". > > Personally I think that I would prefer to always fetch relevant tags. > If I don't want tags I can simply use the "--no-tags" 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. -Peff