Git: distinguish between local and remote tags

Question

If there are tags in the remote repository, I\'m usually getting them automatically when pulling. When I delete the created local tag (git tag -d )

Answer 1

If you're annoyed about these tags being recreated when you run git pull, you turn off the fetching of tags by default with the remote..tagopt config setting. e.g. if the remote is origin, then you can do:

git config remote.origin.tagopt --no-tags

Update: to address your comment, the reason that I suggest this is that there's not an obvious way to tell the difference between a tag that was created locally and one that was fetched from a remote. There's also no reflog for tags. So, my suggestion is to suppress automatic fetching of tags - you can then fetch them yourself into a different namespace. For example, you could do:

git fetch origin +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/origin/*

... and perhaps create an alias for that. Then when you want to fetch tags, they'll be named, for example, refs/tags/origin/tag1 instead of refs/tags/tag1.

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If you want this to happen automatically, you could change your .git/config to list multiple refspecs for fetching, e.g.:

 [remote "origin"]
      url = whoever@whereever:whatever.git
      fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
      fetch = +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/origin/*

... which is suggested in Pro Git.