https://lab.artur-rios.tech/tags/releases/Recent content in Releases on Artur Rios LabHugoen-usWed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/git/git-tags/Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000https://lab.artur-rios.tech/git/git-tags/<p>Branches move: every commit on <code>main</code> moves <code>main</code> forward. Sometimes you need a name that stays where it is put, such as &ldquo;the commit that went out as version 1.6.0&rdquo;. That is a <strong>tag</strong>. Tags mark releases, the build a bug report refers to, or the last commit before a large refactor, and almost every release tool, from GitHub Releases to package registries, reads them.</p> <p>Tags look simple, and mostly are. The parts that cause trouble are the two kinds of tag, which behave differently in some commands, and the fact that tags are not pushed, fetched or overwritten the way branches are. This article covers both. The commands shown were run with Git 2.56 on 21 October 2026, in a scratch repository and in this site&rsquo;s own repository. Long temporary paths in the output are left out.</p>