git tag: fatal: Failed to resolve 'HEAD' as a valid ref

Question

I am cloning a single branch from a repository and creating a tag in a python script. The commands are as follows.

git clone -b master --single-branch 

        

Answer 1

I also faced git tag: fatal: Failed to resolve 'HEAD' as a valid ref issue when I was missing -m in the following command.(during tag creation)

git tag -a testtag 'test'

changing to

git tag -a testtag -m 'test'

fixed the issue