Can I get Jenkins to build a git tag from a passed in parameter?

Question

Jenkins supports parametrized builds.

I have a deployment build that requires the tag to deploy to be specified via a parameter. (to deploy a particular tag to produ

Answer 1

There's Git Parameter Plugin, which allows you to do exactly that:

This plugin allows you to assign git tag or revision number as parameter in Parametrized builds. There is no need to set up anything special, this plugin will read your default configuration from Git Plugin.