Fetch tags outside branches' histories
git help fetch says: > By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is > also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that point at branches that > you are interested in. To give an example: $ mkdir /tmp/source $ cd /tmp/source $ git init $ touch /tmp/source/foo && git add foo && git commit -am foo $ git clone /tmp/source /tmp/dest $ git tag v1.0 $ git checkout -b temp $ echo "Don't lose this" > foo && git commit -am "Important" $ git tag dont-lose-this $ git checkout master $ git branch -D temp $ cd /tmp/dest $ git fetch From /tmp/source * [new tag] v1.0 -> v1.0 $ git fetch --tags From /tmp/source * [new tag] dont-lose-this -> dont-lose-this It's important that we fetch all tags because we sometimes tag a branch with 'archive/something' before force-pushing to it so we don't lose the old head of that branch; it would be sad to not back those up.
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