How do you push a tag to a remote repository using

Question

I have cloned a remote Git repository to my laptop, then I wanted to add a tag so I ran

git tag mytag master

When I run git tag on my laptop the tag mytag is shown. I then want to push this to the remote repository so I have this tag on all my clients, so I run git push but I got the message:

Everything up-to-date

And if I go to my desktop and run git pull and then git tag no tags are shown.

I have also tried to do a minor change on a file in the project, then push it to the server. After that I could pull the change from the server to my Desktop computer, but there's still no tag when running git tag on my desktop computer.

How can I push my tag to the remote repository so that all client computers can see it?

Answer 1

I am using git push <remote-name> tag <tag-name> to ensure that I am pushing a tag. I use it like: git push origin tag v1.0.1. This pattern is based upon the documentation (man git-push):

OPTIONS
   ...
   <refspec>...
       ...
       tag <tag> means the same as refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>.

Answer 2

Tags are not sent to the remote repository by the git push command. We need to explicitly send these tags to the remote server by using the following command:

git push origin <tagname>

We can push all the tags at once by using the below command:

git push origin --tags

Here are some resources for complete details on git tagging:

http://www.cubearticle.com/articles/more/git/git-tag

http://wptheming.com/2011/04/add-remove-github-tags

Answer 3

To expand on Trevor's answer, you can push a single tag or all of your tags at once.

Push a Single Tag

git push <remote> <tag>

This is a summary of the relevant documentation that explains this (some command options omitted for brevity):

git push [[<repository> [<refspec>…]]

<refspec>...

The format of a <refspec> parameter is…the source ref <src>, followed by a colon :, followed by the destination ref <dst>…

The <dst> tells which ref on the remote side is updated with this push…If :<dst> is omitted, the same ref as <src> will be updated…

tag <tag> means the same as refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>.

Push All of Your Tags at Once

git push --tags <remote>
# Or
git push <remote> --tags

Here is a summary of the relevant documentation (some command options omitted for brevity):

git push [--all | --mirror | --tags] [<repository> [<refspec>…]]

--tags

All refs under refs/tags are pushed, in addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command line.

Answer 4

You can push the tags like this git push --tags

Answer 5

Please do not use it, if you are only looking for a command because the main intention of this solution is to introduce you a way of solutions !

To make life easier - i wrote a script git-cheat-sheet ,that contains some useful commands , including the following:

./git_commands.sh -push_tag TAG_NAME

Answer 6

git push --follow-tags

This is a sane option introduced in Git 1.8.3:

git push --follow-tags

It pushes both commits and only tags that are both:

• annotated
• reachable (an ancestor) from the pushed commits

This is sane because:

• you should only push annotated tags to the remote, and keep lightweight tags for local development to avoid tag clashes. See also: What is the difference between an annotated and unannotated tag?
• it won't push annotated tags on unrelated branches

It is for those reasons that --tags should be avoided.

Git 2.4 has added the push.followTags option to turn that flag on by default which you can set with:

git config --global push.followTags true