Branch/master tag revision increments using Git

Question

I\'m trying to nail down a good system for release management, combined with the tagging practice of tagging with version numbers - for example, 1.0. Any changes after that

Answer 1

In git a tag is an alias for a specific commit, not for a branch.

Tags and branches are independent.

So if you want to checkout a specific version to do a minor rev on it then you could do:

git checkout -b new_branch_name commit_id

Or,

git checkout -b new_branch_name tag_name

Both are simply equivalent ways of referring to a specific commit.

Make your changes, commit them and tag the commit with the minor rev.

You could then even delete the branch that you checked out.