On Wed, Jul 9, 2025 at 1:37 AM Adi Shavit <adishavit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When browsing history in **gitk**, I often need to know whether a tag I > see on a commit was: > > * fetched from a remote (and therefore shared with collaborators), or > * created only in my local repository and not yet pushed. This information is not (currently) available in Git. > For branches this distinction is obvious because gitk lists local and > remote-tracking branch heads separately. Tags, however, are shown in a > single list, so a locally added tag and one fetched from –‐say–‐ > `origin` look identical. They not only look identical, they *are* identical*. To make these show up separately, you would have to do at least one of the following: * collect information from the remote in gitk itself (run `git ls-remote`); or * collect information from the remote during `git fetch` The latter would be possible by adding the concept of "remote tags" to Git, but this is a pretty big change (not technically difficult but probably controversial). Chris
