On Jan 15 2018, Michael Giuffrida <michaelpg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It doesn't seem like a useful feature -- you wouldn't expect `git > fetch --prune` to remove your local branches that you were developing > on, right? Don't mix local and remote refs. There is a reason why remote tracking branches are put in a separate name space. If you fetch the remote tags into a separate name space (eg. refs/remote/tags/*:refs/tags/*) then there is no conflict. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."