Git - working with tags

Fetch tags

First, make sure that the tag exists locally by doing

git fetch --all --tags --prune

or

git rup

See the list of all tags

git tag

git tag --list 'v-*'

Checkout tags

Then check out the tag by running

git checkout tags/<tag_name>

or

git checkout tags/<tag_name> -b <branch_name>

If the tags don’t have the word tags in them, don’t use them in the command. Use the list command from above to see the list of available tags.

git checkout 1.0.tag_version

Instead of origin/ use the tags/ prefix.

Create tags

How to create tags? There are 2 ways to create a tag:

git tag v1.0

git tag -a v1.0

Delete tags

Delete a local tag

git tag -d <tag_name>
Deleted tag <tag_name> (was 000000)

Note: If you try to delete a non existig Git tag, there will be see the following error:

$ git tag -d <tag_name>
error: tag '<tag_name>' not found.

Delete remote tags

git push --delete origin <tag name>

Push tags

git push --tags

To push all tags:

git push --tags