Merge pull request #1490 from volcov/add-git-tag-info

[git/en]add documentation about git tags

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git.html.markdown b/git.html.markdown
index 72079f6c..971d53e4 100644
--- a/git.html.markdown
+++ b/git.html.markdown
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ contributors:
     - ["Jake Prather", "http://github.com/JakeHP"]
     - ["Leo Rudberg" , "http://github.com/LOZORD"]
     - ["Betsy Lorton" , "http://github.com/schbetsy"]
+    - ["Bruno Volcov", "http://github.com/volcov"]
 filename: LearnGit.txt
 ---
 
@@ -76,6 +77,11 @@ other repositories, or not!
 A branch is essentially a pointer to the last commit you made. As you go on
 committing, this pointer will automatically update to point the latest commit.
 
+### Tag
+
+A tag is a mark on specific point in history. Typically people use this
+functionality to mark release points (v1.0, and so on)
+
 ### HEAD and head (component of .git dir)
 
 HEAD is a pointer that points to the current branch. A repository only has 1 *active* HEAD.
@@ -206,6 +212,28 @@ $ git branch -m myBranchName myNewBranchName
 $ git branch myBranchName --edit-description
 ```
 
+### tag
+
+Manage your tags
+
+```bash
+# List tags
+$ git tag
+# Create a annotated tag
+# The -m specifies a tagging message,which is stored with the tag.
+# If you don’t specify a message for an annotated tag,
+# Git launches your editor so you can type it in.
+$ git tag -a v2.0 -m 'my version 2.0'
+# Show info about tag
+# That shows the tagger information, the date the commit was tagged,
+# and the annotation message before showing the commit information.
+$ git show v2.0
+# Push a single tag to remote
+$ git push origin v2.0
+# Push a lot of tags to remote
+$ git push origin --tags
+```
+
 ### checkout
 
 Updates all files in the working tree to match the version in the index, or specified tree.