git-tag

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

One way to do this would be with git rev-list. The following will output the commit to which a tag points: $ git rev-list -n 1 $TAG NOTE This works for both Annotated and Unannotated tags You could add it as an alias in ~/.gitconfig if you use it a lot: [alias] tagcommit = rev-list … Read more

This is great question, I’d been wondering the same thing. I didn’t want to write a script so sought a different solution. The key is discovering that you can delete a tag locally, then use git fetch to “get it back” from the remote server. If the tag doesn’t exist on the remote, then it … Read more

Here is how I rename a tag old to new: git tag new old git tag -d old git push origin new :old The colon in the push command removes the tag from the remote repository. If you don’t do this, Git will create the old tag on your machine when you pull. Finally, make … Read more

You can push an ’empty’ reference to the remote tag name: git push origin :tagname Or, more expressively, use the –delete option (or -d if your git version is older than 1.8.0): git push –delete origin tagname Note that git has tag namespace and branch namespace so you may use the same name for a … Read more

Use the -f option to git tag: -f –force Replace an existing tag with the given name (instead of failing) You probably want to use -f in conjunction with -a to force-create an annotated tag instead of a non-annotated one. Example Delete the tag on any remote before you push git push origin :refs/tags/<tagname> Replace … Read more