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I added a tag to the master branch on my machine:

git tag mytag master

How do I push this to the remote repository? Running git push gives the message:

Everything up-to-date

However, the remote repository does not contain my tag.

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To push a single tag:

git push origin tag <tag_name>

And the following command should push all tags (not recommended):

# not recommended git push --tags
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I recommend not using or training others to use git push --tags as it can be very very difficult to get rid of bad tags when your co-workers are trained to push all tags, as people continue to push the old bad tags they have locally every time they want to push a new tag. Because of this, I will only every advise someone to use git push origin <tag_name> now.
To push a moved tag: git push origin <tag_name> --force
If your tag is the same as remote branch and git push fails with error: src refspec <tag_name> matches more than one., you can push it as git push origin tag <tag_name>
Note that git push --tags origin <tag_name> IS NOT what you want - despite naming a specific tag, it pushes them all, even lightweight ones. Sigh.
If you want to push all tags, you could first git push --dry-run --tags origin to see what will get pushed.
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git push --follow-tags

This is a sane option introduced in Git 1.8.3:

git push --follow-tags

It pushes both commits and only tags that are both:

  • annotated
  • reachable (an ancestor) from the pushed commits

This is sane because:

It is for those reasons that --tags should be avoided.

Git 2.4 has added the push.followTags option to turn that flag on by default which you can set with:

git config --global push.followTags true

or by adding followTags = true to the [push] section of your ~/.gitconfig file.

Visual Studio Code

To activate this in Visual Studio Code set the variable "git.followTagsWhenSync": true on a user or workspace basis. GitHub

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It was not clear at once for me that it was an and-relation between "annotated" and "reachable from the pushed commits". I hoped it would push all reachable tags, whatever if annotated or not. Maybe edit to make sure it's not an OR?
This doesn't work for me in git 2.5.0, but git push origin --tags does.
Again, this will work but push ALL local tags to your remote including the bad tags. This may not be what you want.
@nnyby please provide a minimal example with all necessary commands from repo creation to failure and post it on a gist so I can try to reproduce ;-)
Thanks for the push.followTags tip. I can't believe this isn't the out-of-the-box default. Without it, don't even bother to tag, you'll forget and get out of sync tags.
Added a line about setting the follow-tags through the config file.
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To push specific, one tag do following git push origin tag_name

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This answer is much safer than the answer with the most upvotes.
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Add a tag in your current branch. If you want to create the tag for your master, first check out to master.

git tag tag_name

Check if it's created or not

git tag

Push in your remote origin

git push origin tag_name
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This is best "simple" procedure; my use case is having an UNpushed merge (on master) and wanting so "save" work remotely (not on master, for now), on a (new) tag
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To expand on Trevor's answer, you can push a single tag or all of your tags at once.

Push a Single Tag

git push <remote> <tag>

This is a summary of the relevant documentation that explains this (some command options omitted for brevity):

git push [[<repository> [<refspec>…]] <refspec>...

The format of a <refspec> parameter is…the source ref <src>, followed by a colon :, followed by the destination ref <dst>…

The <dst> tells which ref on the remote side is updated with this push…If :<dst> is omitted, the same ref as <src> will be updated…

tag <tag> means the same as refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>.

Push All of Your Tags at Once

git push --tags <remote> # Or git push <remote> --tags

Here is a summary of the relevant documentation (some command options omitted for brevity):

git push [--all | --mirror | --tags] [<repository> [<refspec>…]] --tags

All refs under refs/tags are pushed, in addition to refspecs explicitly listed on the command line.

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The example is leaving out the keyword tag. e.g. git push origin tag funny-tag-1.
@JamesThomasMoon1979 You don't need it. You push a single tag to origin like this: git push origin my-tag (I just tried it!)
I was using version 1.9.1, what about you @AndresF. ?
@JamesThomasMoon1979 Version 2.10.2. Maybe that's it?
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You can push all local tags by simply git push --tags command. 

$ git tag # see tag lists $ git push origin <tag-name> # push a single tag $ git push --tags # push all local tags
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Tags are not sent to the remote repository by the git push command. We need to explicitly send these tags to the remote server by using the following command:

git push origin <tagname>

We can push all the tags at once by using the below command:

git push origin --tags

Here are some resources for complete details on git tagging:

http://www.cubearticle.com/articles/more/git/git-tag

http://wptheming.com/2011/04/add-remove-github-tags

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You can push the tags like this git push --tags

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Very unrecommended
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How can I push my tag to the remote repository so that all client computers can see it?

Run this to push mytag to your git origin (eg: GitHub or GitLab)

git push origin refs/tags/mytag

It's better to use the full "refspec" as shown above (literally refs/tags/mytag) just in-case mytag is actually v1.0.0 and is ambiguous (eg: because there's a branch also named v1.0.0).

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I am using git push <remote-name> tag <tag-name> to ensure that I am pushing a tag. I use it like: git push origin tag v1.0.1. This pattern is based upon the documentation (man git-push):

OPTIONS ... <refspec>... ... tag <tag> means the same as refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>.
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push tag to remote

git push origin mytag

fetch all tags from remote

git fetch --all --tags
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  • if you only want to push this specific tag, You can run below command

git push origin mytag

  • If you want to push all tags at once, You can run below command:

git push origin --tags

That's it.

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I did something like this :

git push --tags origin <branch-name> <tag-name> e.g. : git push --tags origin master v2.0
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In my case I am using Git version 2.30.0 I tried both --follow-tags and --tags, but both of them didn't work to push all the tags to the remote repo. I ended up using:

+refs/remotes/origin/tags/*:refs/tags/*

So for those who are looking for a way to push all the tags (along with master) to a remote repo, you can just add the following +refs/remotes/origin/tags/*:refs/tags/* to your push command.

So your command should be something like this:

git push path/to/your/repo +refs/remotes/origin/tags/*:refs/tags/*

It will successfully create all your tags in the remote repo.

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Why overcomplicate life mate
@Mehdi how is that? It's just the command I used in my case when we are unable to push tags to a remote, in my cas that was the unique way to do it.
That was not the question though
Yes, maybe but it's worthy posting it, as I said it's for for those who struggle to push all their tags to a remote. It might be helpful for someone else.
yeah but the question was "a tag" not "all tags"

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