Git tags

Creating a tag ​

Tags can either be annotaded or lightweight. The difference is that lightweight tags are just a pointer to a specific commit. While annotaded contains metadata such as the tagger name, email, date, a tagging message, and can be signed. Annotaded tags are recommended for release tags.

Annotaded tag:

git tag -a v1 -m "my version 1.0"

Lightweight tag:

git tag v1

Tagging an earlier commit ​

First command is just to help if you need to find the commit hash.

git log -n 5 --pretty=oneline
git tag v1 36f5709fdbd8950e3016ef7ce34b3f71cd7e96af

Listing your tags ​

git tag

Pushing tags ​

Tags are not included in git push.

Push a specific tag:

git push origin v1

Push all tags:

git push --tags

Deleting tags ​

Deleting tag only locally:

git tag -d v1

Deleting a remote tag:

git push origin --delete v1