Git: How do I pull a tagged revision into my fork?

Question

I have a fork of a project on github where the main trunk was recently tagged. I want to pull the code from the tagged revision into my fork. How would I do that?

Answer 1

Once you have the tag in local repository you can do something like

git merge tags/yourtag

If you don't have the "trunk" tags locally, you can fetch it using

git fetch remote-url "refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*"

Or by setting up the remote

git remote add upstream remote-url

and fetching the stuff using

git fetch -t upstream

I think, though, using

git remote update

will have similar effect.

Answer 2

I may be projecting, but I think Jon's problem was the same as mine:

I forked someone else's project (on GitHub), and needed to point the master branch of my fork to a specific tag of their project, effectively ignoring all subsequent development. (Why? After that tag, their project dropped functionality that my fork depends on and must build on. So I'm pegged to that moment in history. Sad but true.)

In this example, the tag was called 0.6.3. All I had to do was cd to my local clone (of my fork) and do

git reset --hard 0.6.3
git push --force

Then I verified on GitHub that my fork reflected the state of the code at their tag!