On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 1:11 AM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 12 2022, Erik Cervin Edin wrote: > > > 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. > > Because your refspec doesn't include refs/tags/*:, try e.g.: > > git fetch https://github.com/git/git.git 'refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*' --no-tags --dry-run > > That's what "--no-tags", i.e. it's per-se (and confusingly) nothing to > do with whether you get tags or not, it's to do with whether we to tag > following. Kind of, adding the tags refspec with --no-tags excludes tags matching the negative refspec but it also clobbers existing tags. > > > I'm going to set > > git config remote.origin.tagopt --tags > > and then that's going to do what I want. > > Isn't that going to give you also the tags you don't want? No, it excludes them fine. It also doesn't clobber which fits my use-case best
