Commit to an Existing Git Tag


Tag: TIL

In certain situations where you may have git pushed too early and left out some important files you may want to modify an existing tag. This shouldn't be used when a version has already been deployed, in this case, incrementing the patch version is always preferable for semantic versioning.

In order to modify the files in an existing tag:

  • Create a branch from the tag
git branch {tagname}-branch {tagname}
git checkout {tagname}-branch
  • Change or update any files
  • Add the updated files and commit the changes
git add < files >
git commit -m "Fix message"
  • Delete and recreate the tag locally
git tag -d < tagname >
git tag < tagname >
  • Delete and recreate the tag remotely
git push origin :< tagname > # deletes original remote tag
git push origin < tagname > # creates new remote tag
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