Git Tags: What Are They and How To Use Them

What are they used for, creating a local tag, how they are seen and how to delete them

Philip Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Towards Data Science
4 min readJul 4, 2023

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In Git, a tag is a way to mark a specific point in the history of a repository. It is typically used to label important milestones or releases, such as a version, release or a major project update. They usually serve three key purposes:

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