Subject: Re: Feature request: option to not fetch tags for 'git remote' branches

From: John Feuerstein <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:08:43 +0100

Hello Frans,

> It would be great to be able to tell 'git remote' to skip tags and only 
> fetch the requested branch. A --no-tags option maybe?
> 
> AFAIK this is currently not possible, although I'd happy to be proven 
> wrong.

have a look at -n, --no-tags provided by git-fetch, ie.

$ git remote add ... foo ...
$ git fetch -n foo

Regards,
John