git-tag

I want git to list all tags along with the full annotation or commit message. Something like this is close: git tag -n5 This does exactly what I want except that it will only show up to the first 5 lines of the tag message. I guess I can just use a very large number. What is the highest number I can use here? Is it the same on every computer? UPDATE : I have had much time to think about this, and now I think I don't necessarily want to show the entire message if it is extraordinarily long. Something like this seems to work fine for me: git tag -n99 If the tag message is really longer than 99

I'd like to create a new master branch from an existing tag. Say I have a tag v1.0 . How to create a new branch from this tag? Wow, that was easier than I thought: git checkout -b newbranch v1.0 user1069067 If you simply want to create a new branch without immediately changing to it, you could do the following: git branch newbranch v1.0 I used the following steps to create a new hot fix branch from a Tag. Syntax git checkout -b <New Branch Name> <TAG Name> Steps to do it. git checkout -b NewBranchName v1.0 Make changes to pom / release versions Stage changes git commit -m "Update pom versions

I want to list all of the lightweight tags in my repository; the best I can think of involves combining git for-each-ref , grep , and cut , but it seems like it'll be kind of fiddly... (While we're at it, we might as well talk about the same thing for annotated tags: someone is sure to end up here wondering about that at some point.) Edit: By lightweight tags, I meant those tag refs that do not refer to tag objects. (In other words, unannotated tags.) torek All the lightweight tags are in the refs/tags/ namespace and can be enumerated with, e.g.: git for-each-ref --format '%(refname:short)'

I'm having trouble finding out which tag is currently checked out. When I do: git checkout tag1 git branch I can't seem to find out which tag I'm on. It only logs: * (no branch) master Is it possible to find out which tags are checked out? In the above example, this would be tag1 . bstpierre Edit : Jakub Narębski has more git-fu. The following much simpler command works perfectly: git describe --tags (Or without the --tags if you have checked out an annotated tag. My tag is lightweight, so I need the --tags.) original answer follows: git describe --exact-match --tags $(git log -n1 --pretty='%h

I want to force push, for example, my tag 1.0.0 to my remote master branch. I'm now doing the following: git push production +1.0.0:master I want to force the push , because all I care about is that the code inside the 1.0.0 tag is pushed to the master branch on the remote repository. What am I doing wrong? Update #1 When I SSH into my server where my Git repository is and execute git branch -l , I don't see the master branch listed either. Update #2 After running git tag -l from inside the remote Git repository, I see that master is listed, meaning that when I ran the following: git push

I have a repository in GitHub and I need to tag it. I tagged in a shell, but on GitHub it is not showing up. Do I have to do anything else? The command I used in the shell is: git tag 2.0 And now when I type git tag it shows: 2.0 So it seems like tags are present, correct? The repository is: https://github.com/keevitaja/myseo-pyrocms . How do I make this tag show up on GitHub? Where are my tags? You can create tags for GitHub by either using: the Git command line, or GitHub's web interface. Creating tags from the command line To create a tag on your current branch, run this: git tag <tagname>

We are new to git, and I want to set a tag at the beginning of our repository. Our production code is the same as the beginning repository, but we've made commits since then. A tag at the beginning would allow us to "roll back" production to a known, stable state. So how to add a tag to an arbitrary, older commit? dkinzer Example: git tag -a v1.2 9fceb02 -m "Message here" Where 9fceb02 is the beginning part of the commit id. You can then push the tag using git push origin v1.2 . You can do git log to show all the commit id's in your current branch. There is also a good chapter on tagging in