Git Tag Mini Cheat Sheet Revisited

1 · Ariejan de Vroom · Sept. 5, 2009, midnight
Just as a kind of mini cheat sheet for using git tags. Jörg Mittag had some great additions that weren’t in the original post which warrant a new post. Git has three different type of tags: Lightweight tags Annotated tags Signed tags Let’s start with lightweight tags. Lightweight tags In the previous cheat sheet only the lightweight local tags were discussed. A lightweight tag is nothing more than a reference to a particular revision or SHA1 object name in the repository....