GIT tag and retag

Working with GIT allows tagging specific points along the repository that have some importance. Commonly, tag is used when a version is released. Here are examples of listing tags, adding and deleting a tag.

List tags

List tag on local

git tag -l "v1.*"

git tag

List tag on repository

git ls-remote --tags

Display details of a tag

git show v1.0.2

Add tag to current branch

git tag -a v1.0.2 HEAD -m "Update for version 1.0.2"

git push origin --tags

Tag can be added to a specific commit.

git tag -a v1.0.2 f8c3501-m "Update for version 1.0.2" 

Retagging

This requires deleting current tag, then publish changes to remote repository.

git tag -d v1.0.2

git push origin :refs/tags/v1.0.2