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.