Git branch from remote tag

Question

I've created a new local git repository mirrored from another remote repository:

git init
git remote add original {url}
git pull original master
git remote add origin {url}
git push -u origin master

This would create a mirror of originals master branch. Now I would like to create a new branch of a tag from original.

How the commands should look like? I tried git checkout -b newbranch original/tagname but I got:

fatal: Cannot update paths and switch to branch 'newbranch' at the same time.
Did you intend to checkout 'original/tagname' which can not be resolved as commit?

Solution 1

You need to wrap this in two instructions

git checkout tagname && git checkout -b newbranch

Alternatively

git checkout tagname -b newbranch

Solution 2

This worked for me

$git fetch --tags
$git tag
$git checkout -b <new_branch_name> <tagname>

Solution 3

There is no concept of “remote tracking tags” like there are “remote tracking branches”. You either get the tags from the repo or you don’t. At least in the standard settings. You can change that, but I would not recommend that. Does this not work?

git checkout -b newbranch tagname

Comments

[dtrunk]

It is a remote tag, both commands didn't work (same error message as described above)

[Chronial]

do git fetch origin -t and try again.

[jchapa]

You should do git pull original tagname

[Obaid]

@dtrunk try adding the tags/ prefix to your remote tag name like this git checkout tags/<remote-tag-name> -b <new-local-branch-name>

[powder366]

And how to I track a remote tag? And can I pull from it?