Git - Checkout a remote tag when two remotes have the same tag name

Question

I had hoped this would work:

git checkout remote/tag_name

but it doesn\'t. This does:

git checkout tags/tag_name
         


        

Answer 1

1 - Fetch the tag from the remote with:

git fetch origin --tags 

Or, to checkout a tag from a different remote use:

git fetch your_remote --tags

2 Check out the tag by running

git checkout tags/

More here: Download a specific tag with Git