Cannot commit a git tag

Question

I probably did this incorrectly.

I made some changes to a git repository and committed these successfully, pushing them to the central repository. I realise now that I want to tag the current version of all files. So I do:

git tag -a 0.5

That succeeds. But now I try a git push and I am told there's nothing to commit. How do I push my new tag to the central repository?

(Note that 'git tag' shows the tag 0.5, but only locally)

Answer 1

I think you want

git push --tags

as that, well, pushes all your tags :)

There are some alternatives of course, this being git and all (replace origin with your repo of choice):

git push origin tag 0.5

or

git push origin refs/tags/0.5:refs/tags/0.5

See git-push(1) for further details. "git ready" has some useful info in their tagging article as well.