On the Perils of Importing Remote Tags in Git
Posted by Yanick Champoux on Mar 5, 2010
So mothers keep your hackers at home
Don’t let them journey all alone
Tell them this world is full of danger
And to shun the repositories of strangers
– The Tag Set of Strangers,
(with apologies to) Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
One of the things I love about Git is how I can add branches from remote repositories in mine at will without fearing messing up anything. The remote branches will not clash with mine, even if they share the same names, because they are referenced as repository/branch. However, as for anything else, you can still poke yourself in the eye if you try hard enough:
