How do I merge a git tag onto a branch

Question

I m trying to find the syntax for merging a tagged commit onto another branch  I m guessing that it s straight forward but my feeble search attempts aren t finding it

User · Answer

Remember before you merge you need to update the tag, it's quite different from branches (git pull origin tag_name won't update your local tags). Thus, you need the following command:

git fetch --tags origin

Then you can perform git merge tag_name to merge the tag onto a branch.

User · Answer

This is the only comprehensive and reliable way I ve found to do this   Assume you want to merge  tag 1 0  into  mybranch         git checkout tag 1 0  will create a headless branch       git branch -D tagbranch  make sure this branch doesn t already exist locally       git checkout -b tagbranch      git merge -s ours mybranch      git commit -am  updated mybranch with tag 1 0       git checkout mybranch      git merge tagbranch

User · Answer

You mean this   git checkout destination branch git merge tag name

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I m late to the game here  but another approach could be    1  create a branch from the tag    git checkout -b  new branch name   tag name    2  create a pull-request to merge with your new branch into the destination branch

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Just complementing the answer   Merging the last tag on a branch   git checkout my-branch git merge   git describe --tags   git rev-list --tags --max-count 1     Inspired by https   gist github com rponte fdc0724dd984088606b0

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