Cloning a tag fails during checkout

I can successfully clone a specific branch by passing a ref value. However when I try to clone a tag (lightweight) it fails. From what I can tell the fetch works but it fails during checkout trying to resolve the ref origin/tag-name

I’m cloning with:

    await git.clone({
      // ...
      ref: 'tag-name',
    });

I see that fetch has a tags argument but clone never passes it so my guess is that the initial fetch does not include the tags.

Thanks for this awesome library

[wmhilton]

OK, think I found a fix. It was a little more subtle than I expected. Passing tags: true to fetch was the first step. But then, because tags are not stored under “refs/heads/remotes” like remote branches but in “refs/tags”, it was erroneously telling the server “I already have that commit” when it was trying to clone it.

[wmhilton]

Yes, tag support isn’t at 100% yet. I’ll add a test for cloning by tag name and see I can get that to pass. It might be as simple as passing {tags: true} to fetch during clone.