On 30 Nov 2009, Colin Guthrie told this: > 'Twas brillig, and Nix at 29/11/09 21:12 did gyre and gimble: >> A full clone shows me the tag, but a 'git pull' or 'git remote update >> origin' refuses to download it. > > The tag is made form the stable-queue branch so chances are you don't see it because it's from a branch you are not tracking? Aha! ,----[ git-pull(1) ] | -t, --tags | Most of the tags are fetched automatically as branch heads | are downloaded, but tags that do not point at objects | reachable from the branch heads that are being tracked will | not be fetched by this mechanism. This flag lets all tags and | their associated objects be downloaded. `---- Three years of fairly heavy git use and I never once stumbled across that. Thanks for the clue!
