Tags

Tags help you mark certain deployments and releases for later reference. Git supports two types of tags:

  • Annotated tags: An unchangeable part of Git history.
  • Lightweight (soft) tags: Tags that can be set and removed as needed.

Many projects combine an annotated release tag with a stable branch. Consider setting deployment or release tags automatically.

Tags sample workflow

  1. Create a lightweight tag.
  2. Create an annotated tag.
  3. 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 --tags