Re: any way to apply tag across all branches in repository?

Chris Friesen wrote:

Hi all,

I'm hoping you can help me out...please CC me on replies, I'm not
subscribed to the list.

We have a piece of software with a "main" branch and multiple
architecture-specific "target" branches.  At each "official" compile,
we'd like to tag the commits that went into that compile with an identifier.

Using tags normally requires that the tag be assigned to each branch
individually--is there any way to apply some sort of designator to the
head of each branch in the repository all at once rather than doing it
separately for each branch?

If I understand you correctly, you are doing your primary development on
the "main" branch and then merging this into the architecture specific
branches which contain additional architecture specific changes.

All you need to do is tag the "main" branch.  Actually, you are tagging
the commit that the branch currently points at.  When this branch is
merged into the other branches, they will also contain this commit, and
'git describe' will use the tag you created when generating the version
string.

-brandon