git-tag is the Git command used to create, list, delete or verify a tag object signed with GPG. A tag is used to mark specific points in history as being important.
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How can I delete a remote tag?
How can I delete a Git tag that has already been pushed?
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How do you push a tag to a remote repository using Git?
I added a tag to the master branch on my machine:
git tag mytag master
How do I push this to the remote repository? Running git push gives the message:
Everything up-to-date
However, the remote repository does not contain my tag.
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Download a specific tag with Git
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…
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How do you rename a Git tag?
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…
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Create a tag in a GitHub repository
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 seems…
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How to tag an older commit in Git?
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…
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How can I move a tag on a git branch to a different commit?
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…
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How to list all Git tags?
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?
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What is git tag, How to create tags & How to checkout git remote tag(s)
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…
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How to create a new branch from a tag?
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?
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How is a tag different from a branch in Git? Which should I use, here?
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…
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How can I get the latest tag name in current branch in Git?
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?
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Remove local git tags that are no longer on the remote repository
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…
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How to tell which commit a tag points to in Git?
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…
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What is the difference between an annotated and unannotated tag?
If I want to tag the current commit. I know both of the following command lines work:
git tag
and
git tag -a -m ''
What is the difference between these commands?
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