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Tags are a simple aspect of Git, they allow you to identify specific release versions of your code. You can think of a tag as a branch that doesn’t change. Once it is created, it loses the ability to change the history of commits.
What is the difference between tag and release?
A tag is a git concept whereas a Release is GitHub higher level concept. As stated in the official announcement post from the GitHub blog: “Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond Git artifacts.”
How do you make a release tag?
Creating tags through GitHub’s web interface
- Click the releases link on our repository page,
- Click on Create a new release or Draft a new release,
- Fill out the form fields, then click Publish release at the bottom,
- After you create your tag on GitHub, you might want to fetch it into your local repository too: git fetch.
What is a GitHub release tag?
About tags in GitHub Desktop Tags are associated with commits, so you can use a tag to mark an individual point in your repository’s history, including a version number for a release. For more information about release tags, see “About releases.”
Do I have to push a git tag?
You can use your own local tags to mark your progress, so it does not make sense to blindly push all tags in your repository to the repository you are pushing to publish your changes, whose tags are by definition public. That’s why you need to push tag explicitly, to mark tag as public.
How do you push with tags?
Git: Push Tags to a Remote Repo
- Delete the tag from the remote repo.
- Move the tag to the correct commit.
- Push the tag to the remote repo.
What’s the difference between a tag and a release?
A tag is a pointer to a specific commit. This pointer can be super charged with some additional information (identity of the creator of the tag, a description, a GPG signature.). A tag is a git concept whereas a Release is GitHub higher level concept.
When to create a branch from the release tag?
Some teams release from a tag on the trunk and do not create a branch at that time. That in itself is an alternate practice to this one, “branch for release”. Those teams wait for a bug that needs fixing for a released, before creating a branch from the release tag (if they are not going to just issue another release from the trunk).
What’s the difference between a Git tag and a release?
A tag is a git concept whereas a Release is GitHub higher level concept. As stated in the official announcement post from the GitHub blog: “Releases are first-class objects with changelogs and binary assets that present a full project history beyond Git artifacts.”
What does red dot mean in branch for release?
That red dot is an accidental build break that was fixed (somehow) soon after. Some teams release from a tag on the trunk and do not create a branch at that time. That in itself is an alternate practice to this one, “branch for release”.