Examples of Tags

• Dev

• CM

• QA

• Production

To list all tags

git tag

git tag -l *s    <- list any tag ending in s

git tag TAG_NAME

git tag -a v1 -m "Version 1 release"

Note: you can sign the tag.

Lives in .git/refs/tags/

Is a hashtag.

Delete a tag

git tag -d v1

To see what a tag contains

git show

Light weight tags

- Comments attached to a tag

Light weight tags point into the DAG.

Light weight tags point to a SHA hash of a commit

Heavy weight tags

git tag -a TAG_NAME

"Off to the side"

This writes the objects into ...

A copy of TAG and a BLOB

NOTES 

Tags are not pushed by default.

git push --tags

git fetch --tags

git fetch blahtag