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Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:42:34PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> 
>> 	git pull git://git.kernel.org/....
>> 
>> and the automatic tag following kicks in, it will first have fetched the 
>> objects once, and then when it tries to fetch the tag objects, it will 
>> fetch the objects it already fetched _again_ (plus the tags), because it 
>> will do the same object pull, but the temporary branch (to be merged) will 
>> never have been written as a branch head.
>
> Isn't this easily avoided by fetching the tags first?

I do not think so.

Notice how the tag following code uses cat-file to determine if
the main fetch likely has slurped the object they point at.