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Subject: Re: BUG: For first push to a bare repo, using "--tags" prevents creation of master branch
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Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Perhaps a justification is that annotated tags are clearly meant to be
> public while lightweight tags can also be used as private bookmarks.

Ah, thanks.  That makes perfect sense.

> In any case, the fact that it's been this way and documented this way
> since 2013 makes it a bit hard to change now.

That too.

I recall "fetch --tags" was updated to become your "--tags-also" by
e66ef7ae (Merge branch 'mh/fetch-tags-in-addition-to-normal-refs',
2013-12-12).  Perhaps we should do the same on the push side.