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git fetch a tag from a remote, but could not see it from "git tag"

git fetch a tag from a remote, but could not see it local.

git remote add remote1 c:\repo\project1.git
git fetch remote1 tag_1.0

    From c:\repo\project1
        * tag           tag_1.0  -> FETCH_HEAD

git tag

git tag does not show the fetched tag tag_1.0. How to list the tag and create a branch from the tag?

Solution

  • To create a local tag tag_1.0,

    git fetch remote1 tag_1.0:refs/tags/tag_1.0

    And then to create a branch foo from the tag,

    git branch foo tag_1.0

    After git fetch remote1 tag_1.0, the commit referenced by the tag is stored in FETCH_HEAD. So, we can also create the local tag and branch based on FETCH_HEAD.

    git fetch remote1 tag_1.0
# There should be no other fetch/pull commands here, otherwise FETCH_HEAD could be rewritten by another commit
git tag tag_1.0 FETCH_HEAD
git branch foo FETCH_HEAD