CharlesB’s answer and helmbert’s answer are both helpful, but it took me a while to understand them. Here’s another way of putting it: A tag is a pointer to a commit, and commits exist independently of branches. It is important to understand that tags have no direct relationship with branches – they only ever identify … Read more
You mean this? git checkout destination_branch git merge tag_name
Clone the repository as normal: git clone git://github.com/rspec/rspec-tmbundle.git RSpec.tmbundle Then checkout the tag you want like so: git checkout tags/1.1.4 This will checkout out the tag in a ‘detached HEAD’ state. In this state, “you can look around, make experimental changes and commit them, and [discard those commits] without impacting any branches by performing another … Read more
git tag <tag name> <tag name>^{} -f -m “<new message>” This will create a new tag with the same name (by overwriting the original).
Edit Jakub Narębski has more git-fu. The following much simpler command works perfectly: git describe –tags (Or without the –tags if you have checked out an annotated tag. My tag is lightweight, so I need the –tags.) Original answer git describe –exact-match –tags $(git log -n1 –pretty=’%h’) Someone with more git-fu may have a more … Read more
Version 1.0.0 of Semantic Versioning, by Tom Preston-Werner of GitHub fame, had a sub-specification addressing this: Tagging Specification (SemVerTag) This sub-specification SHOULD be used if you use a version control system (Git, Mercurial, SVN, etc) to store your code. Using this system allows automated tools to inspect your package and determine SemVer compliance and released … Read more
git tag –contains <commit>
Note: starting with git 1.9/2.0 (Q1 2014), git fetch –tags fetches tags in addition to what are fetched by the same command line without the option. To fetch only tags: git fetch <remote> ‘refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*’ In details: See commit c5a84e9 by Michael Haggerty (mhagger): Previously, fetch’s “–tags” option was considered equivalent to specifying the refspec refs/tags/*:refs/tags/* … Read more
git tag | xargs git tag -d Simply follow the Unix philosophy where you pipe everything. On Windows use git bash with the same command.
The big plus of an annotated tag is that you know who created it. Just like with commits, sometimes it’s nice to know who did it. If you’re a developer and you see that v1.7.4 has been tagged (declared ready) and you’re not so sure, who do you talk to? The person whose name is … Read more