Do GitHub repos show the current repo tag somewhere?

Question

Right now to find out the current tag of a repo I have to clone the repo and run git tag.

Is the tag published somewhere on github?

Just want to make sure I'm not overlooking it somewhere.

Answer 1

The following formatted url will display the list of tags of the repository, with the most recent at the top

 https://github.com/{:owner}/{:repository}/tags

You also can access this list by clicking on the Releases link on the main page of the repository, then on the Tags link.

Note: FWIW, in git parlance, there's no such thing as a current tag.

Tags are basically labels, names. They can exist in two flavors:

• lightweight pointers to some commits (or trees (think directories) or even blobs (think files))
• annotated pointers to the same kind of git objects as above. The annotation adds some additional information as the identity of the person who created the tag, the date of the tagging and optionally a cryptographic signature.

Tags are most of the time used to stamp a version. They can also be used to "bookmark" a specific object (while doing a code review, for instance).

So depending of what one use tags for, the current tags may be:

• The tag pointing to the most recent commit
• The latest created tag (if annotated)
• The last one when their names are alpha sorted (or whatever sort mechanism matching the tag naming convention for this specific repository)