How to fetch all tags in the history of selected branch, but only those tags?

* How to fetch all tags in the history of selected branch, but only those tags?
@ 2019-11-22  9:58 Szelp, A. Sz.
  2019-11-22 12:53 ` Jeff King
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Szelp, A. Sz. @ 2019-11-22  9:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: git

Hi,

I found a discrepancy in the documentation around `git-fetch` where it
describes a default behaviour (and the described behaviour is what I'd
want) but that does not seem to be the actually implemented default
behaviour (on 2.21.0). Well, either that or I misunderstand the
documentation. Then it might be an indication that the documentation
can benefit from clarification.

I described my issue in a question on
[Stackoverflow](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58953115/), but I
figured I'd get more informed answers here.

So, the documentation for `git-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.

However doing `git fetch origin master` I do *not* get any tags. Doing
`--tags` on the other hand fetches *all* of the tags, defying the
benefit spelled out in " the effect is to fetch tags that point at
branches that you are interested in".

What am I missing? Is this indeed a bug (either in implementation or
in documentation), or am I missing something obvious. Also, how can I
force the desired behaviour (fetch the tags in the history, but only
those).

Szabolcs

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