If have a repository with a tag "v1.0.0" and I add a remote repository which also has a tag "v1.0.0" tag is overwritten. Google found [1] from 2011 and option 3 is what I'd like to see. Has it been implemented and I just don't see it? [1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/git-version-control/0l_rJFyTE60 Here is an example demonstrating what I see: $ echo abc > abc.txt $ git init . Initialized empty Git repository in /home/wink/prgs/git/investigate-fetch-tags/.git/ $ git add * $ git commit -m "Initial commit" [master (root-commit) 1116fdc] Initial commit 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 100644 abc.txt $ git tag v1.0.0 $ git remote add gbenchmark git@xxxxxxxxxx:google/benchmark $ git log --graph --format="%h %s %d" * 1116fdc Initial commit (HEAD -> master, tag: v1.0.0) $ git fetch --tags gbenchmark warning: no common commits remote: Counting objects: 4400, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (15/15), done. remote: Total 4400 (delta 5), reused 5 (delta 3), pack-reused 4382 Receiving objects: 100% (4400/4400), 1.33 MiB | 2.81 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (2863/2863), done. >From github.com:google/benchmark * [new branch] clangtidy -> gbenchmark/clangtidy * [new branch] iter_report -> gbenchmark/iter_report * [new branch] master -> gbenchmark/master * [new branch] releasing -> gbenchmark/releasing * [new branch] reportercleanup -> gbenchmark/reportercleanup * [new branch] rmheaders -> gbenchmark/rmheaders * [new branch] v2 -> gbenchmark/v2 * [new tag] v0.0.9 -> v0.0.9 * [new tag] v0.1.0 -> v0.1.0 t [tag update] v1.0.0 -> v1.0.0 * [new tag] v1.1.0 -> v1.1.0 * [new tag] v1.2.0 -> v1.2.0 * [new tag] v1.3.0 -> v1.3.0 * [new tag] v1.4.0 -> v1.4.0 $ git log --graph --format="%h %s %d" * 1116fdc Initial commit (HEAD -> master) As you can see the tag on 1116fdc is gone, v1.0.0 tag has been updated and now its pointing to the tag in gbenchmark: $ git log -5 --graph --format="%h %s %d" v1.0.0 * cd525ae Merge pull request #171 from eliben/update-doc-userealtime (tag: v1.0.0) |\ | * c7ab1b9 Update README to mention UseRealTime for wallclock time measurements. |/ * f662e8b Rename OS_MACOSX macro to new name BENCHMARK_OS_MACOSX. Fix #169 * 0a1f484 Merge pull request #166 from disconnect3d/master |\ | * d2917bc Fixes #165: CustomArguments ret type in README |/ Ideally I would have liked the tags fetched from gbenchmark to have a prefix of gbenchmark/, like the branches have, maybe something like: $ git fetch --tags gbenchmark ... * [new branch] v2 -> gbenchmark/v2 * [new tag] v0.0.9 -> gbenchmark/v0.0.9 * [new tag] v0.1.0 -> gbenchmark/v0.1.0 * [new tag] v1.0.0 -> gbenchmark/v1.0.0 * [new tag] v1.1.0 -> gbenchmark/v1.1.0 * [new tag] v1.2.0 -> gbenchmark/v1.2.0 * [new tag] v1.3.0 -> gbenchmark/v1.3.0 * [new tag] v1.4.0 -> gbenchmark/v1.4.0 -- Wink
