How to create Local and Remote Tags on Git

This is a quick tutorial on how to create a Tag in Git

Creating the Tag in Git is important because it gives the ability to mark or point to a repository's history.

Basically, we will release the tag once the new version is deployed and finalized. By doing so, if we need the previous Tag version code, we can create a new branch from this tag and use the branch for further manipulation.

Create a Tag:

Before creating the tag make sure to switch to the branch where we want to create a Tag. Use the following command to switch the branch.

git checkout development

Here, development is the branch name to switch, use your own branch name.

Create a tag:

git tag -a v0.0.1-06-07-2022 -m "version 0.0.1 released"

This will create the tag with the name v0.0.1-06-07-2022; please use your own version name and "version 0.0.1 released" as a message

List the Tag:

Now, let's list the available tags created.

git tag

We can see all the created tag output below.

v0.0.1-06-07-2022

Push to the repository:

Once the tag is created it will available only locally. If we are using a code management service provider like Github, Bitbucket, or Gitlab then we need to push the tag to a point on the repository. Use the following command to push

git push origin v0.0.1-06-07-2022

Once the tag is pushed we can see the output similar to below

Enumerating objects: 1, done.
Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1/1), 176 bytes | 176.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0)
To https://bitbucket.org/repo_name.git
 * [new tag]         v0.0.1-06-07-2022 -> v0.0.1-06-07-2022

Delete the Tag:

Let's first delete the tag created from the remote.

git push --delete origin v0.0.1-06-07-2022

Once the tag is deleted we can see the output similar as below

To https://bitbucket.org/repo_name.git
 - [deleted]         v0.0.1-06-07-2022

Now, let's delete the tag from locally

git tag -d v0.0.1-06-07-2022