A blog by Devendra Tewari
This post summarizes some useful tag related commands. All commands assume a tag with value v1.0.0, a version number. To create an annotated tag
git tag -a v1.0.0 -m "a comment"
To list all tags
git tag
To view details and diff for a tag
git show v1.0.0
To delete a tag
git tag -d v1.0.0
To replace a tag when it already exists
git tag -a v1.0.0 -f -m "a comment"
To create a tag pointing to the same commit as another tag
git tag -a v1.0.0 v1.0.0-rc -m "a comment"
To create a tag pointing to a specific commit
git tag -a v1.0.0 commit -m "a comment"
To checkout working tree at tag (add option -b to create branch at that point in the tree)
git checkout v1.0.0
To view commit log with tags
git log --decorate=full
To push tags to origin (add -f to force update if tag exists on remote)
git push origin --tags
To push tag deletes to origin
git push origin :refs/tags/v1.0.0
For other commands and options use man git or man git-tag.