How to add tags to my sandbox module?

Question

I 'm working on a sandbox module, which is text_or_user_reference field.

To release the module, I have to create a branch of the module i.e 7.x-1.0

Since beginning of the module development I was not aware with this thing, so I was working on master branch.

Now I have to add the tags to create the branch. To create the tags I followed this guide on drupal.org

These are the commands to push and create the tags:

git tag 7.x-1.0

git push --tags

git push origin tag 7.x-1.0

I have applied all the commands, but I am not able to see whether tags are created or not.

My problems:

• How to check whether tags are created or not ?

• Do I have to seperately assign to tags to each file like .module file, .install file etc.

• When I go to Edit of the project and select the dropdown version to work from it doesn't show the tags/version I created i.e. 7.x-1.0

  Consider this command:

  git branch -v

  What should I expect as a result after I run it? The list of all the files of current branch?

Answer 1

In git, the terms "branch" and "tag" always applies to the whole repository, not to the individual files. A branch denote is a series of commits (so you always use an "x" instead of specific version number for a branch). A tag is a label for a specific version, so you specify the version number (e.g. 1.0 for the first released version, 1.1 for the next, and so on.)

The command git branch -v will give a verbose listing of the current head. It should, in the case of Drupal 7, start with a line * 7.x-1.x. If it says master on the first line, you've not set things up right.

Before adding tags, you need to get your project on a 7.x-1.x branch. In your local repository, do the following to checkout branch 7.x-1.x and delete branch master, and push those changes to the remote:

git checkout -b 7.x-1.x
git branch -d master
git branch -v
git push origin 7.x-1.x
git push origin :master

After you've made sure the branch is 7.x-1.x, you can go ahead and add a tag to your release.

You can use the commands you refer to, to tag. To see all the tag(s) in the local repository:

git tag

After pushing to the remote, if you've done this correctly, you should be able to click on the Version control tab and find the 7.x-1-x branch in the Version to work from: pull-down menu. If you retain the master branch, make sure that you make the 7.x-1.x branch the default.