Tags API

• Get a Tag
• Create a Tag Object

This tags API only deals with tag objects - so only annotated tags, not lightweight tags.

Get a Tag

GET /repos/:owner/:repo/git/tags/:sha

Response

Status: 200 OK
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999

{
  "tag": "v0.0.1",
  "sha": "940bd336248efae0f9ee5bc7b2d5c985887b16ac",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/tags/940bd336248efae0f9ee5bc7b2d5c985887b16ac",
  "message": "initial version\n",
  "tagger": {
    "name": "Scott Chacon",
    "email": "schacon@gmail.com",
    "date": "2011-06-17T14:53:35-07:00"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "commit",
    "sha": "c3d0be41ecbe669545ee3e94d31ed9a4bc91ee3c",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/commits/c3d0be41ecbe669545ee3e94d31ed9a4bc91ee3c"
  }
}

Create a Tag Object

Note that creating a tag object does not create the reference that makes a tag in Git. If you want to create an annotated tag in Git, you have to do this call to create the tag object, and then create the refs/tags/[tag] reference. If you want to create a lightweight tag, you only have to create the tag reference - this call would be unnecessary.

POST /repos/:owner/:repo/git/tags

Parameters

tag

String of the tag

message

String of the tag message

object

String of the SHA of the git object this is tagging

type

String of the type of the object we’re tagging. Normally this is a commit but it can also be a tree or a blob.

tagger.name

String of the name of the author of the tag

tagger.email

String of the email of the author of the tag

tagger.date

Timestamp of when this object was tagged

Example Input

{
  "tag": "v0.0.1",
  "message": "initial version\n",
  "object": "c3d0be41ecbe669545ee3e94d31ed9a4bc91ee3c",
  "type": "commit",
  "tagger": {
    "name": "Scott Chacon",
    "email": "schacon@gmail.com",
    "date": "2011-06-17T14:53:35-07:00"
  }
}

Response

Status: 201 Created
Location: https://api.github.com/repos/:owner/:repo/git/tags/:sha
X-RateLimit-Limit: 5000
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 4999

{
  "tag": "v0.0.1",
  "sha": "940bd336248efae0f9ee5bc7b2d5c985887b16ac",
  "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/tags/940bd336248efae0f9ee5bc7b2d5c985887b16ac",
  "message": "initial version\n",
  "tagger": {
    "name": "Scott Chacon",
    "email": "schacon@gmail.com",
    "date": "2011-06-17T14:53:35-07:00"
  },
  "object": {
    "type": "commit",
    "sha": "c3d0be41ecbe669545ee3e94d31ed9a4bc91ee3c",
    "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/octocat/Hello-World/git/commits/c3d0be41ecbe669545ee3e94d31ed9a4bc91ee3c"
  }
}