I am having some difficulty understanding how to use tags versus branches in git. I just moved the current version of our code from cvs to git, and now I’m going to be working on a subset of that code for a particular feature. A few other developers will be working on this as well, … Read more
In my repository, I have created tags using the following commands. git tag v1.0.0 -m ‘finally a stable release’ git tag v2.0.0 -m ‘oops, there was still a major bug!’ How do you list all the tags in the repository? 10 s 10 git tag should be enough. See git tag man page You also … Read more
I created a tag on the master branch called v0.1 like this: git tag -a v0.1 But then I realized there were still some changes I needed to merge into master for release 0.1, so I did that. But now my v0.1 tag is stuck on (to invoke the post-it note analogy) the wrong commit. … Read more
We are new to git, and I want to set a tag at the beginning of our repository. Our production code is the same as the beginning repository, but we’ve made commits since then. A tag at the beginning would allow us to “roll back” production to a known, stable state. So how to add … Read more
I have a repository in GitHub and I need to tag it. I tagged in a shell, but on GitHub, it is not showing up. Do I have to do anything else? The command I used in the shell is: git tag 2.0 And now when I type git tag it shows: 2.0 So it … Read more
Today I was looking through the logs for a project and realized that I fat fingered a tag name some time ago. Is there some way to rename the tag? Google hasn’t turned up anything useful. I realize I could check out the tagged version and make a new tag, I even tried that. But … Read more
I’m trying to figure out how I can download a particular tag of a Git repository – it’s one version behind the current version. I saw there was a tag for the previous version on the git web page, with object name of something long hex number. But the version name is “Tagged release 1.1.5” … Read more
I have cloned a remote Git repository to my laptop, then I wanted to add a tag so I ran git tag mytag master When I run git tag on my laptop the tag mytag is shown. I then want to push this to the remote repository so I have this tag on all my … Read more
How do you delete a Git tag that has already been pushed? 2 26 You can push an ’empty’ reference to the remote tag name: git push origin :tagname Or, more expressively, use the –delete option (or -d if your git version is older than 1.8.0): git push –delete origin tagname Note that git has … Read more