Use --no-prune-tags in git fetch command #682
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Documentation for --prune-tags says:
Before fetching, remove any local tags that no longer exist on
the remote if --prune is enabled. This option should be used
more carefully, unlike --prune it will remove any local references
(local tags) that have been created. This option is a shorthand
for providing the explicit tag refspec along with --prune, see
the discussion about that in its documentation.
I had fetch.prunetags set in my .gitconfig because normally I want
to delete outdated tags. But I hadn't realized that this causes my
newly-created local tags to be deleted. It seems harmless to use
--no-prune-tags in the git fetch command.
The option was added in Git 2.17.0. Ubuntu 18.04 has 2.17.1,
Debian buster has 2.20.1, RHEL 8 has 2.18.something.
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Documentation for --prune-tags says:
I had fetch.prunetags set in my .gitconfig because normally I want to delete outdated tags. But I hadn't realized that this causes my newly-created local tags to be deleted. It seems harmless to use --no-prune-tags in the git fetch command.
The option was added in Git 2.17.0. Ubuntu 18.04 has 2.17.1, Debian buster has 2.20.1, RHEL 8 has 2.18.something.