How do you push a tag to a remote repository using Git?
Posted By: Anonymous
I have cloned a remote Git repository to my laptop, then I wanted to add a tag so I ran
git tag mytag master
When I run git tag on my laptop the tag mytag is shown. I then want to push this to the remote repository so I have this tag on all my clients, so I run git push but I got the message:
Everything up-to-date
And if I go to my desktop and run git pull and then git tag no tags are shown.
I have also tried to do a minor change on a file in the project, then push it to the server. After that I could pull the change from the server to my Desktop computer, but there’s still no tag when running git tag on my desktop computer.
How can I push my tag to the remote repository so that all client computers can see it?
Solution
git push --follow-tags
This is a sane option introduced in Git 1.8.3:
git push --follow-tags
It pushes both commits and only tags that are both:
- annotated
- reachable (an ancestor) from the pushed commits
This is sane because:
- you should only push annotated tags to the remote, and keep lightweight tags for local development to avoid tag clashes. See also: What is the difference between an annotated and unannotated tag?
- it won’t push annotated tags on unrelated branches
It is for those reasons that --tags should be avoided.
Git 2.4 has added the push.followTags option to turn that flag on by default which you can set with:
git config --global push.followTags true
or by adding followTags = true to the [push] section of your ~/.gitconfig file.
Answered By: Anonymous
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