How can one prevent a specific tag or branch from being fetched in a remote bare repository? [duplicate]

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“Hiding” things in GIT

Is it possible to lock specific tags or branches down so they can't be fetched?

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It is not possible, since when you clone a repository, you get the whole history and can then have access to all tags / branches / ...

What you can do is have two repository, one private where all those restricted branches / tags are present, and a public one where you only push branches / tags that should be accessible. You cannot make them disappear however.

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Only if you keep those branches locally as opposed to remote. Whenever someone clones a repository they get the entire thing. That's the joy of distributed version control.