git push tag -> master

Question

Hi,

I am trying to accomplish something that is probably very simple, though I cannot figure out how, or what I'm doing wrong. So to get straight to the point:

I want to push for example my tag 1.0.0 to my remote master branch.

What I'm doing now is the following:

git push production +1.0.0:master

Yes, I want to force the push because all I care about is that the code inside the 1.0.0 tag is pushed to the master branch on the remote location.

If anyone knows what I'm doing wrong, and/or has any suggestions/pointers, it'd appreciate it!

Thanks!

UPDATE
When I SSH into my server into where my git repository is and execute git branch -l I don't see the master branch listed either.

UPDATE #2
After running git tag -l on from inside the remote git repository I see that master is listed, meaning that when I ran the following: git push production 1.0.0:master it actually pushed the tag, and created a tag named master rather than a new branch. What I want to accomplish is to basically push the contents of tag 1.0.0 into the master branch of the remote git repository.

Answer 1

You need to specify the --force flag to force push.

Answer 2

git push --tags production

Answer 3

It is probably failing because 1.0.0 is an annotated tag. Perhaps you saw the following error message:

error: Trying to write non-commit object to branch refs/heads/master

Annotated tags have their own distinct type of object that points to the tagged commit object. Branches can not usefully point to tag objects, only commit objects. You need to “peel” the annotated tag back to commit object and push that instead.

git push production +1.0.0~{commit}:master
git push production +1.0.0~0:master          # shorthand

There is another syntax that would also work in this case, but it means something slightly different if the tag object points to something other than a commit (or a tag object that points to (a tag object that points to a …) a commit).

git push production +1.0.0~{}:master

These tag peeling syntaxes are described in git-rev-parse(1) under Specifying Revisions.