Tags

Overview

Teaching: 5 min
Exercises: 0 min

Questions

• How do I label my work?

Objectives

• Understand tags.

If you’re developing an experiment or a paper in git you may want to label the repo at relevant timepoints. This makes going back and finding exactly what code you ran much easier.

To create a tag at the current revision:

$ git tag experiment-20180118
$ git push --tags

The above will first tag your local repo with experiment-20180118, and then push all of the tags to github.

Delete a tag

Use git tag --help to work out how to delete a tag, and do it.

Make a tag for an earlier timepoint

How would you create a tag for an earlier timepoint? Try it.

Key Points

• Use tags to label the code at different time points.