Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition

Tagging snapshots

Git supports tagging specific snapshots with a mnemonic string and an additional message. You can use the tags to make the development tree clearer with information such as Merged in new memory management or to mark specific snapshots along a branch. For example, you can use a tag to mark release-1.0 and release-1.1 along the release-1 branch.

Git supports both lightweight tags (just tagging a snapshot) and tags with associated annotation.

Git tags are local only. git push will not push your tags by default. To send tags to the origin repository, you must include the -tags option:

    $ git push origin --tags

The git tag command has options to add, delete, and list tags.