Signed Tagged Release

This may be useful in the future for someone.

This shows you how to sign tag a release from release branch.

Overview

Some software releases require a process to tag a release in the codebase in Gitlab or other git software like GitHub.

This is example for project/release-name-v0.1

git remote -v
origin git@git.pyr8.io:/jeremybusk/project (fetch)
origin git@git.pyr8.io:/jeremybusk/project (push)
upstream git@git.pyr8.io:repo/project (fetch)
upstream git@git.pyr8.io:repo/project (push)

git checkout -b release-name-v0.1 upstream/release-name-v0.1 --track
git pull
git status

YOU WILL SEE:

On branch release-name-v0.1

Your branch is up to date with 'upstream/release-name-v0.1'.

git tag -l # lists current tags - git fetch --tags
git log # you can see latest commit - should be a merge from master

Merge pull request #1999 from project/master

Merge from master to NAME v0.1 release branch for Release v0.1.1

git tag -s v0.1.1 -m "release v0.1.1"
git push upstream v0.1.1 # push tag to upstream

If you mess up on tag/push just delete the release and tag in github and do the process again.