Git Version Control Cookbook - Second Edition

How to do it...

Now that we have found the 60d538f commit, we should make it a lightweight tag:

1. Use the git tag command to give a meaningful release name:

$ git tag 'v2.3.0.201302061315rc1' ea060dd

2. Since there is no output, it is a success. To see whether the tag is available, use the git tag command:

$ git tag -l "v2.3.0.2*"
v2.3.0.201302061315rc1
v2.3.0.201302130906

3. We are using the git tag command with -l as a flag, since we want to list the tags and not tag the current HEAD. Some repositories have a lot of tags; so to prevent the list from becoming too long, you can specify which tags you want to list and use a * wildcard as we did previously. Our tag is available, but all it really says is that we have a tag in the repository with ...