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

There are some questions on my mind:

• Why should different remotes have different code (in the same tree)?
• Why does the remote code affect you checking out tags?

The thing is the following:

When you check out a tag using git checkout tags/fancytag it will look in your current repository (on your machine) for the fitting tag.

If you want to checkout a tag from a specific remote you have to fetch it (the tree of the specific remote) first and then check it out.