Tags

Useful for marking deployments and releases
Annotated tags are an unchangeable part of Git history
Soft/lightweight tags can be set and removed at will
Many projects combine an annotated release tag with a stable branch
Consider setting deployment/release tags automatically

Tags

Create a lightweight tag
Create an annotated tag
Push the tags to the remote repository

Additional resources

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

Commands

git checkout master

# Lightweight tag
git tag my_lightweight_tag

# Annotated tag
git tag -a v1.0 -m ‘Version 1.0’
git tag

git push origin --tags