In git, how do I sync my tags against a remote server?

Question

Is there a way to keep my local git tags in lockstep with a remote\'s tags? That is -- not only get new tags when created (as usual, when fetch-ing/pull

Answer 1

disclaimer this uses git internals (some may argue that the filesystem is a git interface, but that's for another day :D)

# Blow away all local tags, this will remove any that are tagged locally
# but are not on the remote
rm .git/refs/tags/*

# Download all the tags from the remote
git fetch --tags