Question

I’m moving from svn to git. With svn I used to have a tag structure like this:

tags
| fixes
| | 14
| | 31
| | 46
| betas
| | 1.1b
| | 1.1b2
| releases
| | 1.0
| | 1.1
| | 1.2

Is this not possible with git? Every git documentation I’ve read only mentions simple flat tagging with names, but no hierarchical structure:

$ git tag
v1.0
v1.1
v1.2

Answer 1

You can put / in your Git tag names, so you can:

git tag fixes/14
git tag betas/1.1b

Et cetera. I would consider it kind of redundant since it’s already obvious that 1.1b is a beta.

Please note that Git tags and Subversion tags are very different. A Git tag is a named point in history, whereas a Subversion tag is a directory. As a consequence, you can browse Git tags with history tools like gitk, so you may discover that you have no need for hierarchical names.