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docs: must have the release tags in the local repo, fixes #8582

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@ -119,6 +119,11 @@ to your local machine. The instructions for forking and cloning a repository
can be found there:
`<https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/quickstart/fork-a-repo>`_ .
Make sure you also fetched the git tags, because without them, ``setuptools-scm``
will run into issues determining the correct borg version. Check if ``git tag``
shows a lot of release tags (version numbers).
If it does not, use ``git fetch --tags`` to fetch them.
To work on your contribution, you first need to decide which branch your pull
request should be against. Often, this might be master branch (esp. for big /
risky contributions), but it could be also a maintenance branch like e.g.