Re: [PATCH 8/8] fetch: stop clobbering existing tags without --force

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason writes: > > Tags need not be pointing at commits so there is no way to > > guarantee "fast-forward" anyway. The observation the above statement makes is not incorrect per-se, but it does not justify "anything goes". "nothing is allowed unless

[PATCH 8/8] fetch: stop clobbering existing tags without --force

Change "fetch" to treat "+" in refspecs (aka --force) to mean we should clobber a local tag of the same name. This changes the long-standing behavior of "fetch" added in 853a3697dc ("[PATCH] Multi-head fetch.", 2005-08-20), before this change all tag fetches effectively had --force enabled. The