Protect Tag Document For Free

To protect a tag, you must have at least the Maintainer role. Go to the project's Settings > Repository. From the Tag dropdown list, select the tag you want to protect or type and select Create wildcard. ... From the Allowed to create dropdown list, select users with permission to create matching tags, and select Protect:

Git supports two different types of tags, annotated and lightweight tags. The previous example created a lightweight tag. Lightweight tags and Annotated tags differ in the amount of accompanying meta data they store. A best practice is to consider Annotated tags as public, and Lightweight tags as private.

Configuring tag protection rules On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. Under your repository name, click Settings. ... In the "Code and automation" section of the sidebar, click Tags. Click New rule. Under "Tag name pattern", type the pattern of the tags you want to protect. ... Click Add rule.

Configuring tag protection rules On your GitHub Enterprise Server instance, navigate to the main page of the repository. Under your repository name, click Settings. ... In the "Code and automation" section of the sidebar, click Tags. Click New rule. Under "Tag name pattern", type the pattern of the tags you want to protect.

Tags cannot begin or end with, or contain multiple consecutive / characters. They cannot contain any of the following characters \, ?, ~, ^, :, * , [, @. They cannot contain a space. They cannot end with a . or have two consecutive ..

Tag naming restrictions They cannot contain any of the following characters \, ?, ~, ^, :, * , [, @. They cannot contain a space. They cannot end with a . or have two consecutive .. anywhere within them.

On GitHub.com, navigate to the main page of the repository. Under your repository name, click Settings. If you cannot see the "Settings" tab, select the dropdown menu, then click Settings. Under "Pushes", select Limit how many branches and tags can be updated in a single push.