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From:   Kevin Daudt <me@ikke.info>
To:     Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] git remote prune removes local tags, depending on fetch
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:48:32PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> On Jan 15 2018, Michael Giuffrida <michaelpg@chromium.org> wrote:
> 
> > It doesn't seem like a useful feature -- you wouldn't expect `git
> > fetch --prune` to remove your local branches that you were developing
> > on, right?
> 
> Don't mix local and remote refs.  There is a reason why remote tracking
> branches are put in a separate name space.  If you fetch the remote tags
> into a separate name space (eg. refs/remote/tags/*:refs/tags/*) then
> there is no conflict.
> 
> Andreas.

But then they are no longer considered tags, but remote tracking
branches. Tools like git tag and git describe won't consider them, and
git branch -r would show them as remote tracking branches.

> 
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