Hi!

On Wednesday 2019-10-02 15:55, Jeff King wrote:
> It's a documentation bug, I think. We won't auto-follow tags when
> fetching into FETCH_HEAD (but this is further confused by the fact that
> fetching into FETCH_HEAD will auto-update a tracking ref).
>
> So instead of this:
>
>> $ git fetch origin master
>
> try this:
>
>  $ git fetch origin
>
> or even this:
>
>  $ git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master

I thought it would work, but it works only once. On the second time the 
ref for the remote branch is deleted. It seems git is confused by 
specifying a ref it expect to manage itself.

Is there any other way to force auto-follow tags? If there is no sane 
way, I have to create a throwawy branch and delete it immediately.

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$ git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master
remote: Enumerating objects: 4, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2/2), done.
remote: Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (4/4), done.
From /tmp/r1
  * [new branch]            master     -> origin/master
  * [new tag]               t1         -> t1
  * [new tag]               t2         -> t2
$ ls .git/refs/remotes/origin
master
$ git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master
From /tmp/r1
  - [deleted]               (none)     -> origin/master
$ ls .git/refs/remotes/origin
/bin/ls: cannot access .git/refs/remotes/origin: No such file or directory
$ git fetch origin master:refs/remotes/origin/master
From /tmp/r1
  * [new branch]            master     -> origin/master
$ ls .git/refs/remotes/origin
master
$ git --version
git version 2.23.0
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Best regards
Martin Nicolay

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