Document how to not fetch tags from old repo when syncing#168
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| > # Only fetch `main` branch | ||
| > git config remote.old.fetch '+refs/heads/main:refs/remotes/old/main' | ||
| > # Don't fetch tags | ||
| > git config remote.old.tagOpt '--no-tags' |
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Why the single quotes? Is the shell interpreting --no-tags as an option or something?
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That's what I was worried about, yeah. I didn't actually test it without but figured this was the safest approach.
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Otherwise we end up with all of the old
release_Ntags in here when we do a sync.