Example below shows how to list remote tags, without cloning the repo:
$ git ls-remote --tags https://<TOKEN>@github.com/user/repo.git # 0afdaf971...09a refs/tags/tagname How to remotely edit/add/del new tag like example above without having to clone the repo?
git push origin :tagname Requires of cloning the repo.
Is there a way to achieve it without cloning repo?
@xerx593
Thank you for pointing to the right direction, here is solution:
curl --user "username:password" --data '{"tag_name":"v1.1","target_commitish":"master"}' \ -X POST https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/releases I figured out how to do this in a generic way in git (this may break in the future).
The following variables are used:
BRANCH_NAME # I think this can be anything REPOSITORY_URL COMMIT_HASH # The commit to tag TAG_NAME # The name of the tag For git push to work, you need to have a .git directory created as follows:
mkdir -p .git/objects .git/refs echo 'ref: refs/heads/$BRANCH_NAME' > .git/HEAD printf '[remote "origin"]\n url = $REPOSITORY_URL' Additionally, you need to have a "commit" object in the objects directory. This file has a bit of information that's difficult to transfer over and re-create. It's easier to just copy the file over (it's a small file). The following will get the file:
mkdir -p output_directory/objects/${COMMIT_HASH:0:2}/ cp .git/objects/.git/objects/${COMMIT_HASH:0:2}/${COMMIT_HASH:2} output_directory/objects/${COMMIT_HASH:0:2}/${COMMIT_HASH:2} And then when you're ready, you can copy this file to the new stub git repository in the .git/objects/${COMMIT_HASH:0:2}/${COMMIT_HASH:2} directory.
Then in the new stub git directory, push the new tag like this:
git push +${COMMIT_HASH}:refs/tags/${TAG_NAME} Remember to set up your git credentials. This can be done as follows:
git config credential.helper store echo "https://$GIT_USERNAME:$GIT_PASSWORD@$GIT_REPOSITORY_DOMAIN" > ~/.git-credentials Found this too. If the commit you want to tag is the latest of a particular branch, you can download only that commit like this:
git clone --bare --single-branch --branch $BRANCH_NAME --depth=1 --filter=tree:0 --filter=blob:none --filter=object:type=commit $REPOSITORY_URL .git This requires a later version of git which supports --filter and --filter=object:type=commit. Besides the commits, this seems to also download the hooks directory, which on my repository is 40k (I think this is with an empty list of hooks).
Then you can tag it as usual:
git push origin +$BRANCH_NAME:refs/tags/${TAG_NAME}