Aral Balkan

Cyborg rights activist.

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Howto: create a tag in git and have it show up in GitHub

First, create the tag:

git tag 1.0 -a

Next, push your tag to the remote repository:

git push --tags

Comments

For those of use who have managed to get by with commit messages (and github full text search of messages) why else would we want tags?
by James on 2009-01-21 22:20:24
Thanks Aral
by Guide of Vietnam on 2011-10-17 12:50:49
You should do a "git commit" and "git push" before creating the tag.
by Simson on 2012-05-22 18:33:10