Upgrade: Fetch the tags prior checkout

[ongolaboy]

Change Type

Addition

Area

Installation/upgrade

Proposed Changes

Upgrading page -> "Checking out an older release" section ...

if you did not download the complete repository during your install,

sudo git checkout v2.11.11 will not work. You will end up with

git error: pathspec 'v2.11.11' did not match any file(s) known to git

You need to download all the tags first with git fetch --tags . Then you can proceed with the previous command.

[pheus]

This was fixed by PR #18309, which addressed issue #13366.

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[jeremystretch]

The --tags parameter was added to the git fetch command under #19778.