Git Tags

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Git Tags

From: Stefanie Leisestreichler <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-29 11:50:19

Hi.

I have done this (on box A):

git commit -m "Message"
git tag -a 0.9.0
git push origin master

In my local repository, when I run "git tag" it is showing me "0.9.0".

Then I did (on box B)
git clone ssh://user@host:/path/project.git
cd project
git tag

Now git tag is showing nothing.

Why is the tag only available in my local repository?

Also when I try to
git clone --branch 0.9.0 ssh://user@host:/path/project.git
it tells me: fatal:remote branch not found in upstream repository origin

Why is the tag not available in origin?

Thanks,
Stefanie

Re: Git Tags

From: Mateusz Loskot <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-29 11:56:43

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 12:50, Stefanie Leisestreichler
[off-list ref] wrote:
git tag -a 0.9.0
git push origin master

In my local repository, when I run "git tag" it is showing me "0.9.0".

Then I did (on box B)
git clone ssh://user@host:/path/project.git
cd project
git tag

Now git tag is showing nothing.

Why is the tag only available in my local repository?
From https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging
"By default, the git push command doesn’t transfer tags to remote servers.
You will have to explicitly push tags to a shared server after you
have created them."

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

RE: Git Tags

From: Randall S. Becker <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-29 13:40:24

On November 29, 2018 6:56, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 12:50, Stefanie Leisestreichler
[off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
git tag -a 0.9.0
git push origin master

In my local repository, when I run "git tag" it is showing me "0.9.0".

Then I did (on box B)
git clone ssh://user@host:/path/project.git cd project git tag

Now git tag is showing nothing.

Why is the tag only available in my local repository?
quoted
From https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging
"By default, the git push command doesn’t transfer tags to remote servers.
You will have to explicitly push tags to a shared server after you have created
them."
git push --tags

and

git fetch --tags

to be symmetrical

Cheers,
Randall

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Re: Git Tags

From: Mateusz Loskot <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-29 13:45:40

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 14:40, Randall S. Becker [off-list ref] wrote:
On November 29, 2018 6:56, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
quoted
On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 12:50, Stefanie Leisestreichler [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
git tag -a 0.9.0
git push origin master

In my local repository, when I run "git tag" it is showing me "0.9.0".

Then I did (on box B)
git clone ssh://user@host:/path/project.git cd project git tag

Now git tag is showing nothing.

Why is the tag only available in my local repository?
quoted
From https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging
"By default, the git push command doesn’t transfer tags to remote servers.
You will have to explicitly push tags to a shared server after you have created
them."
git push --tags
After my yesterday experience [1], I'd be careful with git push --tags :)

[1] genuine screenshot and link to related thread at
https://twitter.com/mloskot/status/1068072285846859776

Best regards,
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

Re: Git Tags

From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <hidden>
Date: 2018-11-29 15:10:02

On Thu, Nov 29 2018, Stefanie Leisestreichler wrote:
Hi.

I have done this (on box A):

git commit -m "Message"
git tag -a 0.9.0
git push origin master

In my local repository, when I run "git tag" it is showing me "0.9.0".

Then I did (on box B)
git clone ssh://user@host:/path/project.git
cd project
git tag

Now git tag is showing nothing.

Why is the tag only available in my local repository?

Also when I try to
git clone --branch 0.9.0 ssh://user@host:/path/project.git
it tells me: fatal:remote branch not found in upstream repository origin
Because --branch <name> means get refs/heads/<name>, tags are not
branches. However, because we're apparently quite loose about this in
the clone/fetch code this does give you the tag if it exists, but
probably not in the way you expect.

We interpret the argument as a branch, and will get not only this tag
but "follow" (see --no-tags in git-fetch(1)) the tag as though it were a
branch and give you all tags leading up to that one. This would give you
a single tag:

    git clone --no-tags --branch v2.19.0 --single-branch https://github.com/git/git.git

But this is a more direct way to do it:

    git init git; git -C git fetch --no-tags https://github.com/git/git.git tag v2.19.0

Which'll since you said it failed that's because you haven't pushed the
tag. Try 'git ls-remote <url>' to see if it's there (it's not).
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