How do I tag my git repository using the GitHub Mac application?

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orbitory picture orbitory · Feb 12, 2012 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

I pretty new to GitHub and personally did not have time to learn too much command line. I prefer using the GitHub Mac app for my personal projects and I was curios if I can add tags with it.

Basically I just want to tag my projects v0.1 and so on. I'm not even sure this is the best way to do it.

Answer

blahdiblah picture blahdiblah · Jul 16, 2012

From VonC's answer to the same question asked on SuperUser:

Both in their announcement and in the help section, this (tag) doesn't seem to be available (at the time of the writing of this answer).

That means GitHub for Mac doesn't manage yet the tags namespace (refs/tags), and that you need to tag manually, and then git push --tags to GitHub also manually.

Though that was a year ago, there's still nothing to indicate that tags are supported. There's still no mention in the help section, subsequent blog posts about it don't mention tags, nor do the release notes (though they only cover relatively recent versions).

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