Tags
- Useful for marking deployments and releases
- Annotated tags are an unchangeable part of Git history
- Soft/lightweight tags can be set and removed at will
- Many projects combine an annotated release tag with a stable branch
- Consider setting deployment/release tags automatically
Tags sample workflow
- Create a lightweight tag
- Create an annotated tag
- Push the tags to the remote repository
git checkout master
# Lightweight tag
git tag my_lightweight_tag
# Annotated tag
git tag -a v1.0 -m ‘Version 1.0’
# Show list of the existing tags
git tag
git push origin --tagsAdditional resources