How do i create annotated or lightweight git tags?

amurleopard

lightweight tags are generally used to tag a commit and annotated tags are used to tag a release of software.

To add a lightweight tag to a commit.

$ git tag "demo" 72f8aba22137f5ff37f2ed8411935400e5ea7a9c

To add an annotated tag, an annotated tag creates another object which references the commit, and does not just add it to the commit.

$ git tag -a v1.4 -m "Lastorders Version 1.4"

You can see this in.

$ cat .git/refs/tags/v1.4
4248ecd3964cd38ec31c11b0376ab95b46428c25

Viewing that hash values with the git cat-file command.

$ git cat-file -p 4248ecd3964cd38ec31c11b0376ab95b46428c25
object 72f8aba22137f5ff37f2ed8411935400e5ea7a9c
type commit
tag v1.4
tagger Trainer1 <[email protected]> 1493125468 +0100

Lastorders Version 1.4

You can list your tags using this command.

$ git tag -l

You can delete you tags using this command.

$ git tag -d v1.4
Deleted tag 'v1.4' (was 4248ecd)