How to create a GitHub tag for your last commit?

This is a short blog post about: how to create a tag for your last commit in GitHub? It’s good to have tags as they help you easily compare changes to your source code on GitHub.

It needs only five steps 😉 .

Step1: Get the last git commit ID

git rev-parse --short HEAD

Note: Useful stackoverview entry

• Example output:

b5147bb

Step 2: Create a tag

git tag -a v0.0.1-verify-scripts b5147bb -m "Reflect all changes related to the bash script automation for the Kubernetes setup"

Step 4: Push tag to repository

git push origin v0.0.1-verify-scripts

• Example output:

Enumerating objects: 1, done.
Counting objects: 100% (1/1), done.
Writing objects: 100% (1/1), 224 bytes | 224.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 1 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
To https://github.com/IBM/operator-sample-go.git
 * [new tag]         v0.0.1-verify-scripts -> v0.0.1-verify-scripts

Step 5: List existing tags

git tag

• Example output:

v0.0.0-verify-scripts
v0.0.1-verify-scripts

Summary¶

It’s good to have tags, because they help you easily to compare changes in a GitHub project.
(here how to delete a tag)

I hope this was useful to you and let’s see what’s next?

Greetings,

Thomas

#github, #tag