git-config

How do I stop git from adding carriage returns when cloneing a repo onto windows?

I still have XP on my laptop and have installed Git so that I can do some work on it. When I clone a repository from my server (which is linux) it automatically adds carriage returns onto each line. So now Git thinks that every file has been modified when, in fact, they haven't. I've tried adding the following lines to my .gitconfig fil...

How do I force fetching of tags if I have the --no-tags option set

Whenever I run git fetch it fetches all the tags from origin. In a project with lots of tags, this can get quite bothersome. So I ran git config remote.origin.tagopt --no-tags so fetching will no-longer fetch tags. However, there are some times when I do want to fetch tags, or a single tag. Does anyone know how to do this? (besides remo...