I switched from Subversion to Git as my day-to-day VCS last year and am still trying to grasp the finer points of “Git-think”. The one which has been bothering me lately is “lightweight” vs. annotated vs. signed tags. It seems pretty universally accepted that annotated tags are superior to lightweight tags for all real uses, … Read more
From git-clone(1) Manual Page –branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository. I tried git clone –branch <tag_name> <repo_url> But it does not work. It returns: warning: Remote branch 2.13.0 not found in upstream origin, using HEAD instead How to use this parameter? 6 Answers 6
I want git to list all tags along with the full annotation or commit message. Something like this is close: git tag -n5 This does exactly what I want except that it will only show up to the first 5 lines of the tag message. I guess I can just use a very large number. … Read more
If I want to tag the current commit. I know both of the following command lines work: git tag <tagname> and git tag -a <tagname> -m ‘<message>’ What is the difference between these commands? 3 Answers 3
Say I’ve forked a node module with a bugfix and I want to use my fixed version, on a feature branch of course, until the bugfix is merged and released. How would I reference my fixed version in the dependencies of my package.json? 5 Answers 5
I have a bunch of unannotated tags in the repository and I want to work out which commit they point to. Is there a command that that will just list the tags and their commit SHAs? Checking out the tag and looking at the HEAD seems a bit too laborious to me. Update I realized … Read more
We use tags in git as part of our deployment process. From time to time, we want to clean up these tags by removing them from our remote repository. This is pretty straightforward. One user deletes the local tag and the remote tag in one set of commands. We have a little shell script that … Read more
What’s the simplest way to get the most recent tag in Git? git tag a HEAD git tag b HEAD^^ git tag c HEAD^ git tag output: a b c Should I write a script to get each tag’s datetime and compare them? 25 s 25 To get the most recent tag (example output afterwards): … Read more
I’d like to create a new master branch from an existing tag. Say I have a tag v1.0. How to create a new branch from this tag? 7 s 7 Wow, that was easier than I thought: git checkout -b newbranch v1.0
when I checkout remote git tag use command like this: git checkout -b local_branch_name origin/remote_tag_name I got error like this: error: pathspec origin/remote_tag_name did not match any file(s) known to git. I can find remote_tag_name when I use git tag command. 6 s 6