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Tags are a great way of labelling the git pushes as you progress through the development of your code. When you execute the command git push origin <tag id>, you are adding a tag to the remote repo against the current commit You need to follow these steps |
Create a git repo as normal
Make changes to the code base
git add .
git commit -m <message>
git tag -a <tag id> -m <message relating to the tag>
git push origin <tag id>master
git push origin master<tag id>
Lines 6 and 7 can be swapped.
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The reason for line 7 is because by default git push does not push the tags. Tags have to be explicitly passed to git remote. To push multiple tags simultaneously pass the --tags option to |
Use the following convention for <tag id> vX.Y e.g. v1.4
As an example here is a git tag command - git tag -a v1.4 -m “some message”
Use this batch script to do the heavy lifting
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git add .
git commit -m %2
git tag -a %1 -m %2
git push origin master
git push origin %1 |
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Great write up on tags https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/inspecting-a-repository/git-tag |