How do you push a Git tag to a branch using a refspec

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I want to force push  for example  my tag 1 0 0 to my remote master branch   I m now doing the following   git push production  1 0 0 master   I want to force the push  because all I care about is that the code inside the 1 0 0 tag is pushed to the master branch on the remote repository   What am I doing wrong   Update  1  When I SSH into my server where my Git repository is and execute git branch -l  I don t see the master branch listed either   Update  2  After running git tag -l from inside the remote Git repository  I see that master is listed  meaning that when I ran the following   git push production 1 0 0 master   It actually pushed the tag and created a tag named master rather than a new branch   I want to basically push the contents of the tag 1 0 0 into the master branch of the remote Git repository

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For pushing a single tag  git push  lt reponame gt   lt tagname gt   For instance  git push production 1 0 0  Tags are not bound to branches  they are bound to commits   When you want to have the tag s content in the master branch  do that locally on your machine  I would assume that you continued developing in your local master branch  Then just a git push origin master should suffice

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I create the tag like this and then I push it to GitHub   git tag -a v1 1 -m  Version 1 1 is waiting for review  git push --tags  Counting objects  1  done  Writing objects  100   1 1   180 bytes  done  Total 1  delta 0   reused 0  delta 0  To git github com neoneye triangle draw git     new tag          v1 1 - gt  v1 1

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git push --tags production

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It is probably failing because 1 0 0 is an annotated tag  Perhaps you saw the following error message      error  Trying to write non-commit object  to branch refs heads master   Annotated tags have their own distinct type of object that points to the tagged commit object  Branches can not usefully point to tag objects  only commit objects  You need to    peel    the annotated tag back to commit object and push that instead   git push production  1 0 0  commit  master git push production  1 0 0 0 master            shorthand   There is another syntax that would also work in this case  but it means something slightly different if the tag object points to something other than a commit  or a tag object that points to  a tag object that points to a      a commit    git push production  1 0 0    master   These tag peeling syntaxes are described in git-rev-parse 1  under Specifying Revisions

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