Multiple Git Tagging on the same repo

MULTIPLE_GIT_TAGGING.md

Git tagging cookbook

Let's suppose that we want to keep two different tag versioning on the same repo:

• v[0-9]* for master branch versions
• d[0-9]* for development branch versions

Basic commands: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Basics-Tagging

Please note I am using git version 2.14.1. The behavior may differ according to your version

# Retrieve all tags
git tag
# Describe the latest applicable tag
git describe --tags
# If no tag available you will see something like
# fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything.

# Before creating new tags, make sure you are up to date with origin
git fetch --tags origin

# Create one tag
git tag -a d1 -s -m "first development branch tag"
git push origin d1

# I can look for specific d tags versions
git describe --match "d[0-9]*" --abbrev=0 HEAD --tags
git tag -l -n "d[0-9]*"
# d1              first development branch tag

# Increase tag version
D_TAG=$(git describe --match "d[0-9]*" --abbrev=0 HEAD --tags)
VNUM=${D_TAG//d/}
echo "d$((VNUM + 1))"
# d2

# Remove tag locally and remotely
git tag -d d1
git push --delete origin d1