Push Git Tag to Remote

The git tag command creates a local tag with the current state of the branch. When pushing to a remote repository, tags are NOT included by default. It is required to explicitly define that the tags should be pushed to remote.

Push all tags to remote:

$ git push origin --tags

Push a single tag to remote:

$ git push origin <tag_name>

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.

Only push annotated tags to the remote, and keep lightweight tags for local development to avoid tag clashes.