304 — Tags and Releases

Learn to mark important points in your repository's history with tags. Master semantic versioning and create releases for your projects.

Learning Objectives

Understand the difference between lightweight and annotated tags

Create and manage tags

Push tags to remote repositories

Check out specific versions

Follow semantic versioning conventions

Step 1

Create project for tagging

Set up a repository with some commits representing a project's evolution.

Commands to Run

mkdir -p ~/git-practice/lesson-304

cd ~/git-practice/lesson-304

git init

echo "# API Server" > README.md

echo "const express = require('express');" > server.js

git add .

git commit -m "Initial commit: Set up project structure"

What This Does

Tags are typically used to mark release points in your project (v1.0.0, v2.0.0, etc.). We'll simulate a project that evolves through multiple versions.

Expected Outcome

Repository initialized with initial project files.

Pro Tips

1
Tags are like bookmarks in your commit history
2
They mark important milestones or releases