Finale: Tagging in Git
Have you every wondered, how to set a reset point, so that you can retrieve your files, even if you have updated many times, this is what git tagging is about, there are 3 types of tags, lightweight, annotated, and signed. Lets see how each works.
Lightweight tags
These are like commit messages, are only messages, and does not contain files.
use the code git tag tag_name and you are done!
Annotated tags
These are the most important type of tag. It contains both the message and EVERY SINGLE FILE at the tagging moment!
Use the code git tag -a tag_name -m "tag message" to create this type of tag.
Signed tags
Those are just gpg-signed annotated tags.
Use the code git tag -s tag_name -m "tag message" and then git tag -v tag_nameto create the tags.
Pushing the tag to remote repository
Update the tag to a remote repository using this code:
git push origin main --tags
Restoring files from tags
To restore from the tag, use git checkout tag_name you can have experimental changes, but no commits are allowed. To be able to have changes, use:
git checkout tag_name -b branch_name
git checkout main
git reset --hard branch_name