How to create a new branch from a tag

Question

I d like to create a new master branch from an existing tag  Say I have a tag v1 0  How to create a new branch from this tag

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Wow  that was easier than I thought   git checkout -b newbranch v1 0

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The situation becomes a little bit problematic if we want to create a branch from a tag with the same name   In this  and in similar scenarios  the important thing is to know  branches and tags are actually single-line text files in  git refs directory  and we can reference them explicitly using their pathes below  git  Branches are called here  heads   to make our life more simple   Thus  refs heads master is the real  explicit name of the master branch  And refs tags cica is the exact name of the tag named cica   The correct command to create a branch named cica from the tag named cica is   git branch cica refs tags cica

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If you simply want to create a new branch without immediately changing to it  you could do the following   git branch newbranch v1 0

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An exemple of the only solution that works for me in the simple usecase where I am on a fork and I want to checkout a new branch from a tag that is on the main project repository   here upstream   git fetch upstream --tags  Give me From https   github com keycloak keycloak    90b29b0e31  0ba9055d28  stage      - gt  upstream stage     new tag     11 0 0     - gt  11 0 0  Then I can create a new branch from this tag and checkout on it git checkout -b tags  lt name gt   lt newbranch gt  git checkout tags 11 0 0 -b v11 0 0

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I have resolve the problem as below 1  Get the tag from your branch 2  Write below command  Example  git branch  lt Hotfix branch gt   lt TAG gt      git branch hotfix 4 4 3 v4 4 3     git checkout hotfix 4 4 3   or you can do with other command   git checkout -b  lt Hotfix branch gt   lt TAG gt  -b stands for creating new branch to local    once you ready with your hotfix branch  It s time to move that branch to github  you can do so by writing below command  git push --set-upstream origin hotfix 4 4 3

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I used the following steps to create a new hot fix branch from a Tag   Syntax  git checkout -b  lt New Branch Name gt   lt TAG Name gt    Steps to do it    git checkout -b NewBranchName v1 0 Make changes to pom   release versions Stage changes git commit -m  Update pom versions for Hotfix branch  Finally push your newly created branch to remote repository    git push -u origin NewBranchName   I hope this would help

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My branch list  only master now     My tag list  have three tags     Switch to new branch feature codec from opus codec tag  git checkout -b feature codec opus codec

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