Git tips

reset git working to master

• update all your refs to the latest

git fetch --all

• Backup your current branch:

git checkout -b backup-master

• Then, you have two options:

git reset --hard origin/master

git reset --hard origin/<branch_name>

git tags

• add a local tag

 git tag -a tagname [checkin-version] -m 'message'

• delete a local tag

 git tag -d tagname

• push one tag to remote

 git push origin tag

• push multiple tags

git push --tags

• delete a remote tag

git push origin --delete tag

• obtain all tags from remote

git fetch --all --tags

It is customary to prefix version tag names with V followed by the version.