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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 12:49:51 -0700
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Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:

> That still hasn't really resolved the question of how to deal with
> tags, but it does solve the question of how to deal with replace and
> notes refs.

I do not think it would be a good change to add a

    [remote "foo"]
        fetch = refs/tags/*:refs/tracking/foo/tags/*

as people do expect to see tags from upstream to appear in their
local tag namespace when cloning from the central meeting point of
their project (e.g. Linus's kernel repository).

I'm willing to believe those who argued that they have both private
tags and public tags in their repository, but I think that would be
something better supported by adding "git tag --local foo" that
creates a local tag in e.g. refs/local-tags/foo, and by teaching
DWIMmery to also look in there when the user says "foo".

Alternatively, they can use their local branch namespace, which is
already private to them.