From 690a441c2558749426962ac6bfe6bb74acb43b2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Soon Van <cog@randomecho.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:36:22 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Tip about tags not coming down the aisle unless you call for
 them

Tags are so incidental they are not normally slurped with the
usual fetch or push commands. A little heads up.

Also adds a nutshell inline with the rest of the cards.
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 </pre>
 
+    <p>By default, tags are not included when you <code>push</code> to or
+      <code>fetch</code> from a remote repository. In order to explicitly
+      update these you must include the <code>--tags</code> option to transfer
+      all the tags on the repo.
+    </p>
+
+<pre>
+<b>$ git fetch origin --tags</b>
+remote: Counting objects: 1832, done.
+remote: Compressing objects: 100% (726/726), done.
+remote: Total 1519 (delta 1000), reused 1202 (delta 764)
+Receiving objects: 100% (1519/1519), 1.30 MiB | 1.21 MiB/s, done.
+Resolving deltas: 100% (1000/1000), completed with 182 local objects.
+From git://github.com:example-user/example-repo
+ * [new tag]         v1.0       -> v1.0
+ * [new tag]         v1.1       -> v1.1
+</pre>
+
+    <p>If you just want a single tag, use
+      <code>git fetch &lt;remote> tag &lt;tag-name></code>.
+    </p>
+
+    <p class="nutshell">
+    <b>In a nutshell</b> you use <code>git tag</code> to mark a
+    commit or point in your repo as important. This also allows
+    you to refer to that commit with a more memorable reference
+    than a SHA.
+    </p>
+
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