Subject: Re: GC of alternate object store

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 09:03:34 -0700

Oswald Buddenhagen <[email-masked]> writes:

>> Doesn't
>> 
>> 	git push $over_there 'refs/*:refs/remotes/mine/*'
>> 
>> push your tag v1.0 to refs/remotes/mine/v1.0 over there?  The
>> version of git I ship seems to do this just fine.
>> 
> as i wrote before, i'm pulling, not pushing,...

You would need to decline the automatic tag following with --no-tags
(which in hindsight is misnamed; it really means "do not auto-follow
tags"), like so:

	cd $over_there &&
        git fetch --no-tags $my_repository 'refs/*:refs/remotes/mine/*'

Otherwise, you will also get tags in refs/tags/.