I want to create a single tag for multiple commits(merged branches).
Can we group multiple commits to a single tag , please help me on this.
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8No. A given tag can only point to one commit. Are you sure you're familiar enough with the concept of a tag? If not, see git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Taggingjub0bs– jub0bs2015-04-06 14:03:22 +00:00Commented Apr 6, 2015 at 14:03
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Jubobs is correct. You might want to explain in more detail what you want, which should make it easier for someone to explain why a multi-commit tag is neither possible nor necessary.chepner– chepner2015-04-06 19:24:57 +00:00Commented Apr 6, 2015 at 19:24
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For a particular releases we do multiple commits. So how to create a tag for this type of releases ?Hare Ram– Hare Ram2015-04-07 08:37:00 +00:00Commented Apr 7, 2015 at 8:37
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Multiple commits for a single release in a single Git repository? That doesn't seem to make a lot of sense, but the answer is still that a tag is connected to exactly one commit.Magnus Bäck– Magnus Bäck2015-04-08 05:46:24 +00:00Commented Apr 8, 2015 at 5:46
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4@HareRam For a particular releases we do multiple commits. Why not create one tag pointing to the "most recent" of those commits? That would make more sense than creating multiple tags for a given release.jub0bs– jub0bs2015-04-08 17:51:27 +00:00Commented Apr 8, 2015 at 17:51
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What you are trying to do is not possible. A tag, like a branch, can only point to at most one commit.
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I used git tag -a V2.0 - m "My Message" <commit-id> , it added my head and this passed commit-id in this tag. Can you please explain ?
A really late answer, but you could make tags like
v1.2_b7_p0
v1.2_b7_p1
v1.2_b7_p2
v1.2_b7_p3
where the last _pX part makes them unique, but you can group by the other part. Possibly:
v1.2_b7_code
v1.2_b7_docs
v1.2_b7_demo
v1.2_b7_changelog
would work, depending on why you need so many.
But it does seem a release should be a single commit. Maybe a branch is really what you want.
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we can add tag only one commit id git add tag -a v1.0 [commit ID]
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It depends on what you mean by "tag". If you use the word "tag" to mean an actual tag in git, then the answer is "no". However, if you just want a general method to associate a string with multiple commits, you could use git-notes. For example, to associate the string "foo" with multiple commits (that is, to apply the label "foo" to multiple objects), you could do:
git notes --ref labels add -m foo $oid_1
git notes --ref labels add -m foo $oid_2
etc.
You can set GIT_NOTES_REF in the environment to avoid specifying --ref on each invocation of git-notes.
You can view all of the labels with:
git notes --ref labels
and you can view the labels in the history with
GIT_NOTES_REF=refs/notes/labels git log --notes
Depending on your use case, it might be preferred to create a refname that incorporates the label. eg, git notes --ref foo add $oid This allows (requires!) you to add some text to the note (which can be the empty string).
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