Creating tags in Git - Try It Yourself

Creating tags

📖 Scenario: You are working on a software project using Git. You want to mark specific points in your project's history with tags. Tags help you label important versions like releases.

🎯 Goal: You will create a Git tag named v1.0 on the current commit and then display the list of tags in your repository.

📋 What You'll Learn

Create a lightweight Git tag named v1.0

List all tags in the repository

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Tags are used to mark release versions or important milestones in software projects.

💼 Career

Knowing how to create and manage Git tags is essential for software developers and DevOps engineers to organize and track project versions.

1

Create a lightweight tag named v1.0

Use the Git command git tag v1.0 to create a lightweight tag named v1.0 on the current commit.

Git

# Your code here

Need a hint?

A lightweight tag is created by just specifying the tag name after git tag.

2

Verify the tag was created

Use the Git command git tag to list all tags and verify that v1.0 appears in the list.

Git

git tag v1.0
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Running git tag without arguments lists all tags.

3

Create an annotated tag named v1.0-annotated

Use the Git command git tag -a v1.0-annotated -m "Version 1.0 release" to create an annotated tag named v1.0-annotated with the message Version 1.0 release.

Git

git tag v1.0
git tag
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Annotated tags include a message and are created with -a and -m options.

4

List all tags to see both lightweight and annotated tags

Use the Git command git tag again to list all tags and confirm both v1.0 and v1.0-annotated appear.

Git

git tag v1.0
git tag
git tag -a v1.0-annotated -m "Version 1.0 release"
# Your code here

Need a hint?

Running git tag lists all tags, showing both lightweight and annotated tags.