Tagging a release
Git Tags are references that point to specific points in the Git history. Tags are used in Azure DevOps for marking a particular release (or branch) with an identifier that will be shared internally in your team to identify, for example, the "version" of your code base.
As an example, in the previous section, we merged the development
branch into the master
branch by using a pull request. Now, the master
branch contains our latest release of the code, which we're now ready to share internally.
To use tags for your branches, in the Repos hub in Azure DevOps, go to the Tags menu:
From here, you can create a tag for this release by going to Tags and clicking on New Tag.
Here, you're prompted to insert a tag name (an identifier that cannot contain spaces), provide a description for this tag, and select the branch that the tag will be applied to: