Petr Baudis wrote:
> So the strategy I'm thinking of now is to manually (I think no GIT tool
> can do that for me) dereference the possible tag chain until I end up at
> some non-tag object. Now, if it is a commit and I don't have it yet, it
> means that it is not interesting to me because it does not belong to a
> branch I'm following, so I will just ignore the tag (won't download
> anything else and won't record it in the refs/tags directory).

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