Questions tagged [git-tag]
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 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 ...
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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, ...
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Create a tag in a GitHub repository
I have a GitHub repository and I need to tag it.
I created a tag in a shell using the following command:
git tag 2.0
git tag
>>> 2.0
The tag does exist locally, but does not appear on GitHub....
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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) ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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How to clone a specific Git tag
From git-clone(1) Manual Page
--branch can also take tags and detaches the HEAD at that commit in the resulting repository.
I tried
git clone --branch <tag_name> <repo_url>
But it ...
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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 ...
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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 <tagname>
and
git tag -a <tagname> -m '<message>'
What is the difference between these ...
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How to list all tags along with the full message in git?
I want git to list all tags along with the full annotation or commit message. Something like this is close:
git tag -n5
This does exactly what I want except that it will only show up to the first 5 ...
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Depend on a branch or tag using a git URL in a package.json?
Say I've forked a node module with a bugfix and I want to use my fixed version, on a feature branch of course, until the bugfix is merged and released.
How would I reference my fixed version in the ...
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Why should I care about lightweight vs. annotated tags?
I switched from Subversion to Git as my day-to-day VCS last year and am still trying to grasp the finer points of "Git-think".
The one which has been bothering me lately is "lightweight" vs. ...
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Delete all tags from a Git repository
I want to delete all the tags from a Git repository. How can I do that?
Using git tag -d tagname delete the tag tagname locally, and using git push --tags I update the tags on the git provider.
I ...
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How to list all tags that contain a commit?
This question is similar to How to list all tags pointing to a specific commit in git, but with one difference: I wish to search for all tags that contain a specific commit within the tree of each tag,...
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Is there a standard naming convention for git tags? [closed]
I've seen a lot of projects using v1.2.3 as the naming convention for tags in git. I've also seen some use 1.2.3. Is there an officially endorsed style, or are there any good arguments for using ...
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Does "git fetch --tags" include "git fetch"?
A nice and simple question - is the function of "git fetch" a strict sub-set of git fetch --tags?
I.e. if I run git fetch --tags, is there ever a reason to immediately run git fetch straight ...
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Show which git tag you are on?
I'm having trouble finding out which tag is currently checked out.
When I do:
git checkout tag1
git branch
I can't seem to find out which tag I'm on. It only logs:
* (no branch)
master
Is it ...
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How do I edit an existing tag message in Git?
We have several annotated tags in our Git repository. The older tags have bogus messages that we would like to update to be in our new style.
% git tag -n1
v1.0 message
v1.1 message
v1.2 message
v2.0 ...
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Switch to another Git tag
How do I check out version version/tag 1.1.4 of the rspec bundle?
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/Bundles/
git clone git://github.com/rspec/rspec-tmbundle.git RSpec.tmbundle
osascript -e '...
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How do I merge a git tag onto a branch
I'm trying to find the syntax for merging a tagged commit onto another branch. I guess it's straightforward but my feeble search attempts aren't finding it.
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Do Git tags only apply to the current branch?
I'm currently working with a repository that has multiple branches.
When I create a tag, does that tag refer to the then-current branch?
In other words: Whenever I create a tag, do I need to switch ...
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Do git tags get pushed as well?
Since I created my repository it appears that the tags I have been
creating are not pushed to the repository. When I do git tag on the
local directory all the tags are present, but when I logon to the
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How do you push a Git tag to a branch using a refspec?
I want to force push, for example, my tag 1.0.0 to my remote master branch.
I'm now doing the following:
git push production +1.0.0:master
I want to force the push, because all I care about is that ...
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"Updates were rejected because the tag already exists" when attempting to push in SourceTree
When attempting to Push via Source Tree, I get the following error:
git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false -c credential.helper=sourcetree push -v --tags origin refs/heads/master:...
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Checking out Git tag leads to "detached HEAD state"
I'm developing a deployment script for my git project and I just started using tags. I've added a new tag called v2.0:
git tag -a v2.0 -m "Launching version 2.0"
And I've pushed this tag to the ...
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“tag already exists in the remote" error after recreating the git tag
I get the following error after I run the steps below:
To [email protected]:username/repo-name.git
! [rejected] dev -> dev (already exists)
error: failed to push some refs to 'git@provider....
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Why should I use tags vs. release/beta branches for versioning?
I've been using git for about a year and would like to use tagging to, well, tag commits at different versions. I've found lots of info on the commands to use to work with tags, but what I'd like to ...
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Get the time and date of git tags
I have a project that is using git and have tagged all the releases with a tag.
$ git tag
v1.0.0
v1.0.1
v1.0.2
v1.0.3
v1.1.0
My goal is to list the releases and release dates in a web interface (tag/...
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Git Tag list, display commit sha1 hashes
so the git tag command lists the current git tags
tag1
tag2
git tag -n prints tag's message
tag1 blah blah
tag2 blah blah
What's the best way to get the hash of tag1 & tag2 ?
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How can I tell if a given git tag is annotated or lightweight?
I type git tag and it lists my current tags:
1.2.3
1.2.4
How can I determine which of these is annotated, and which is lightweight?
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What names are valid git tags?
I have got a error message while creating tag containing [ character:
fatal: '[' is not a valid tag name.
Question: are there any rules for tags in the git?
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How do you remove a tag from a remote repository
Is it possible to untag a revision that has been push upstream using git.
This is what has happened:
git tag 1.1
git push --tags origin master
Doh! That was meant to be version 1.1beta
Can you rebase ...
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In git, how do I sync my tags against a remote server?
Is there a way to keep my local git tags in lockstep with a remote's tags? That is -- not only get new tags when created (as usual, when fetch-ing/pull-ing), but also prune tags no longer on a remote ...
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"git describe" ignores a tag
In the following lines:
$ git tag -n1
v1.8 Tagged the day before yesterday
v1.9 Tagged yesterday
v2.0 Tagged today
$ git describe
v1.9-500-ga6a8c67
$
Can anyone explain why the ...
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Git force push tag when the tag already exists on remote
I have a tag already pushed onto the remote. When another user creates the same tag and tries to push, the push will fail because the tag already exists on the remote.
But I thought if I did --f force ...
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Get last git tag from a remote repo without cloning
How to get last tag from a (non checked-out) remote repo?
On my local copy I use describe
git describe --abbrev=0 --tags
But I cannot use describe with remote storage
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Adding Tags to a Pull Request
I have a repo iontech/Anagen forked from agiliq/Anagen
I made a few commits to my fork and added a tag. Then I opened a Pull Request. This Pull Request includes only my commits.
How do I include the ...
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git tag delete and re-add
On git hub I re-added the tag by doing:
git tag -d 12.15
git push origin :refs/tags/12.15
git tag -a 12.15 -m '12.15'
git push --tags
The tag is still referring to the old tag on github, but ...
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Fetch a single tag from remote repository
This command fetches all tags:
git fetch origin --tags
This command fetches a specific tag:
git fetch origin refs/tags/1.0.0
But that doesn't let me do:
git checkout tags/2.3.18
How can I fetch ...
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Git tag before or after merge?
I have a simple question about tagging different versions of my project with git. If I just completed my 1.1 branch and plan to merge it into master, should I tag this branch as 1.1 before I merge it, ...
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Understanding Gitlab CI tags
I've read documentation, some articles and you might call me dumb, but this is my first time working with a concept like this.
I've registered runner with tag "testing"
created tag "testing" in ...
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how to close a branch in git
When I know I won't use a branch any more is it possible to close or lock it? Actually I would like to close a branch but I don't think it is possible to close a branch with GIT. what about the delete....
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What happen to Git tags pointing to a removed commit
Say I do the following:
Create branch X
Create Tag t (to branch X)
Push
Remove branch X
What happen to tag t? is it just floating there? is it considered as garbage?
Should I remove all tags ...
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