How do you revert to a specific tag in Git

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I know how to revert to older commits in a Git branch  but how do I revert back to a branch s state dictated by a tag  I envision something like this   git revert -bytag  Version 1 0 Revision 1 5    Is this possible

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Use git reset   git reset --hard  Version 1 0 Revision 1 5     assuming that the specified string is the tag

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You can use git checkout  I tried the accepted solution but got an error  warning  refname   lt tagname gt   is ambiguous  But as the answer states  tags do behave like a pointer to a commit  so as you would with a commit hash  you can just checkout the tag  The only difference is you preface it with tags   git checkout tags  lt tagname gt

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Git tags are just pointers to the commit  So you use them the same way as you do HEAD  branch names or commit sha hashes  You can use tags with any git command that accepts commit revision arguments  You can try it with git rev-parse tagname to display the commit it points to   In your case you have at least these two alternatives    Reset the current branch to specific tag   git reset --hard tagname  Generate revert commit on top to get you to the state of the tag   git revert tag    This might introduce some conflicts if you have merge commits though

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