A Blog by Malathi Boggavarapu

Hi, I am Malathi Boggavarapu and welcome to my blog. This tutorial describes about creating and verifying tags in Git and pushing the tags to the remote repository. I have a seperate post " Git Fundamentals " in my blog which explains everything about Git but i had broken them down to smaller sections to make it easy for everyone to follow.  So let's get started. Creating and Veifying tags Lets look at tagging the repository. We can tag a repository by using the below commands git tag v1.0  - v1.0 is the tag name and it is an unsigned tag. git tag  - It shows the tags that were created git tag -a v1.0_with_message  - It will annotate or message to associate with a tag. git tag -s v1.0_signed  - We can sign a tag using this command. We can also verify the tags. To verify the created tags we use the following commands. See the picture. The above picture is very clear. For the programmer there is no need to explain further i believe. So