I would like to fetch all tags on a repo, and the default pull does not do this. I did try to “fetch”, adding the “–tags” flag, but that operation did not want to run.
Selecting the “Tags” section in the sidebar only allows for creating tags, not fetching them. Additionally, I see that I can “push” local tags. But I can’t find any option for fetching tags. Am I missing something?
Thanks!
By default git fetch automatically collects all tags in all of the history that it has access to unless you specifically tell it not to by modifying the configuration or you specify --no-tags to tell it not to.
Does using the fetch option not give you all tags?
If I recall correctly (I’m not a git guru by any stretch) you only get tags for branches that your git knows about,. I’m not sure if that means you need to make a local tracking branch for a remote in order to see tags contained only in those branches or if just knowing that there’s an upstream branch is enough, though.