On Wed, Oct 12, 2022 at 11:13 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I.e. it got stuff you asked for, but also tags pointing at the main > history, --no-tags will stop that, at which point you can *also* fetch > tags, just with the refspec. I tried but git fetch --no-tags with negative refspec did not fetch any tags. git fetch --tags does. I'm going to set git config remote.origin.tagopt --tags and then that's going to do what I want. Thank you for pointing me in the right direction and giving clarity. > I haven't had time to try this, but I believe this isn't a bug, it's > just that you didn't supply --no-tags. I guess then everything works as expected but maybe the documentation regarding this could be improved.
