Any way to mark commits in git

Question

My work involves using git. Time and again test a commit to check if it is working fine and then mark such commits as release. Till now I've been branching to do this, but I have to do a lot of back and forth for it. is there any other way to mark some of my master releases.

Answer 1

You can try and use git tags.

Also add the following alias to ~/.gitconfig:

release = !git tag -a release-$(git tag -l "release-*"|wc -l|sed 's/ //g')-$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD)-$(git rev-parse HEAD)

You will create an annotated tag in this form:

release-<release number>-<branch name>-<commit hash>