Can we set a Git default to fetch all tags during a remote pull

Question

I currently have a git remote setup like the following    remote  upstream       url    lt redacted gt      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes upstream     When I issue git pull on branch master  all remote heads are fetched into remotes upstream  then remotes upstream master is merged into master  Any tags that can be reached are also fetched at the same time  which is very convenient   I d like git pull to additionally fetch all tags from the remote  not just those that are directly reachable from the heads  I originally tried seting tagopt    --tags  but found this caused only tags to be fetch and thus broke everything   Junio even says that s a horrendous misconfiguation    Is there a way to make git pull fetch all remote tags by default  in addition to the remote heads

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The --force option is useful for refreshing the local tags  Mainly if you have floating tags   git fetch --tags --force   The git pull option has also the --force options  and the description is the same      When git fetch is used with  lt rbranch gt   lt lbranch gt  refspec  it refuses to   update the local branch  lt lbranch gt  unless the remote branch  lt rbranch gt    it fetches is a descendant of  lt lbranch gt   This option overrides that   check    but  according to the doc of --no-tags      By default  tags that point at objects that are downloaded from the   remote repository are fetched and stored locally    If that default statement is not a restriction  then you can also try   git pull --force

User · Answer

For me the following seemed to work   git pull --tags

User · Answer

It s simple  Do a git fetch --all

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I use this with magit on kernel org   remote  upstream       url    lt redacted gt      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes upstream       tagOpt   --tags

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You should be able to accomplish this by adding a refspec for tags to your local config  Concretely    remote  upstream       url    lt redacted gt      fetch    refs heads   refs remotes upstream       fetch    refs tags   refs tags

User · Answer

A simple git fetch --tags worked for me

[git] Can we set a Git default to fetch all tags during a remote pull?

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