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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Subject: Re: any way to apply tag across all branches in repository?
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 10:59:50 -0600
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Tomas Carnecky wrote:

> Tags are not specific to any branch in particular. Usually you tag  
> commits, and git doesn't care on which branch these commits are. That  
> information is not recorded in the tag.
> 
> What you can do is create an alias that iterates over all branches and  
> tags each one.
> 
> git for-each-ref refs/heads/main refs/heads/arch/ | while read sha  
> type ref; do
>      git tag TAGNAME $sha -m "Tagged $ref"
> done
> 
> $sha is the sha where the ref points to, $type will be 'commit' and  
> $ref is the full ref (refs/heads/arch/xxx for example)

I tried something like this manually but on the second branch it complained
that the tag already existed.

Chris