fetch: tag following too ambitious?

When investigating the exact semantics of tag-following, I discovered that the tag auto-following behavior of git fetch is more ambitious than I would have expected: it fetches any tag that references an object that is known to the local repository, *even if that object is not currently reachable*

Re: fetch: tag following too ambitious?

Michael Haggerty mhag...@alum.mit.edu writes: When investigating the exact semantics of tag-following, I discovered that the tag auto-following behavior of git fetch is more ambitious than I would have expected: it fetches any tag that references an object that is known to the local