GitHub.com - how to pull Releases/Tags without losing commit history?

Question

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Good time of the day! In general, I have a problem, there are 2 versions of the project on GitHub , the first version of the application supports iOS 6, the second only iOS 7. On the 6th version, it was already the case, they scored a little, and did not support it, in the master branch - the version of the application is already only from 7th. The old version has been uploaded to GitHub as Releases/Tags .
Actually, the question is: how can Releases / Tags be pulled from GitHub so that the commits remain?

Answer 1

Releases/Tags are just tags. If you want to pull tags (and the history leading to them) from a remote repository to a local one, you can do it like this:

git remote add remote_tags <url>
git fetch --tags remote_tags
git remote del remote_tags

Local commits, of course, will remain, but the tags may not match them if, for example, the history was rewritten, or these are two completely different repositories.