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Just as a kind of mini cheat sheet for using git tags. Jörg Mittag had some great additions that weren’t in the original post which warrant a new post.

Git has three different type of tags:

• Lightweight tags
• Annotated tags
• Signed tags

Let’s start with lightweight tags.

Lightweight tags

Just as a kind of mini cheat sheet for using git tags:

Adding a tag:

• git tag tag_name
• git tag
  Should show your new tag.
• git push origin --tags or git push origin :tag_name
  Because git push doesn’t push tags.

Removing a tag:

• git tag -d tag_name
• git tag
  Should no longer show your tag.
• git push origin :refs/tags/tag_name
  Because git push --tags doesn’t push deleted tags.