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This article will teach us how to list all tags in Git.

Git is a version control system that tracks changes in project directories using a Git repository. Changes made to files are tracked in a Git repository using commits.

Using tags, we can mark important checkpoints in the commit history of a Git repository. We can use Git commands git tagto list the tags in a Git repository.

We will now illustrate this with an example.

List all tags in Git

We can use the Git command git tagto list the tags we added earlier.

We need to execute the Git command git tagto list all the tags in our Git repository.

$ git tag
v1.0
v2.0

We can also search for tags matching a specific pattern.

Suppose we have added a tag for a version called v1.2.4 in our project Git repository . We can use the Git command with the -l command option to search for all tags matching the pattern v1.2.4git tag in our Git repository , as follows:

$ git tag -l "v1.2.4*"
v1.2.4
v1.2.4-rc0
v1.2.4-rc1
v1.2.4-rc2
v1.2.4-rc3

We can also list the tags from the remote Git repository. We can use the Git command with the --tags command option git ls-remote.

So, to list the tags of the remote repository referenced by origin , we can execute the following command:

$ git ls-remote --tags origin

232a7dcf1ca57e05d892311b406730b39dc8ed75e        refs/tags/v1.0
111ad7fd794bf52a11de43ddaa6010978e6100d3a        refs/tags/v2.0

So, we have learned how to list all tags in Git.