git fetch: how to just pull a pattern of tags

Question

I want sync all tags which name is ver*, I tried following command but it fetched tags which name is not ver*

git fetch --tags --prune --prune-tags --force origin '+refs/tags/ver*:refs/tags/ver*'

Any idea?

Answer 1

Two points :

• --tags is equivalent to adding refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* on your command line, and will fetch all tags

You should drop that option

• by default, git fetch will download any tag that points to any commit in the history of the refs you fetch
  e.g: if you have a osexp-test tag pointing to a commit which is part of the history of ver-1.1, then that tag will also be fetched.

To cancel this beavior, use the --no-tags option

git fetch --no-tags --prune --prune-tags origin '+refs/tags/ver*:refs/tags/ver*'

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The default behavior is documented in git help tag (second paragraph of the Description section) :

By default, any tag that points into the histories being fetched is also fetched; the effect is to fetch tags that point at branches that you are interested in. This default behavior can be changed by using the --tags or --no-tags options or by configuring remote.<name>.tagOpt.