To get the most recent tag (example output afterwards): git describe –tags –abbrev=0 # 0.1.0-dev To get the most recent tag, with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object & more: git describe –tags # 0.1.0-dev-93-g1416689 To get the most recent annotated tag: git describe –abbrev=0
$ git clone will give you the whole repository. After the clone, you can list the tags with $ git tag -l and then checkout a specific tag: $ git checkout tags/<tag_name> Even better, checkout and create a branch (otherwise you will be on a branch named after the revision number of tag): $ git … Read more
To push a single tag: git push origin <tag_name> And the following command should push all tags (not recommended): # not recommended git push –tags
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