git push --follow-tags about release-it

[webpro]

That's very interesting, @jmendiara, didn't know about this option. Will definitely try this out soon. Thanks!

[doliver3]

First, thanks for making a great release tool.

Could you implement this --follow-tags option by default instead of git push --tags
git push --tags sends all of your local tags even if they are tags which are only pointing to your local repo that you have not committed to the server. It creates tag pollution from multiple users in the shared central repo, and some of those tags may not point to anything in the destination repo since the tag was only local.

Follow tags is much better since it only pushes tags that match your commits to the shared destination repo.
git push --follow-tags
That won't push all the local tags though, only the one referenced by commits which are pushed with the git push.

In case you don't like the --follow-tags option for some reason, git push with the specific tag name is also quite valid and is perhaps what is intended when you're running the release-it command. This also avoids tag pollution on the server from multiple users since only one tag is pushed rather than all of the tags from the local repo.

[webpro]

Thanks for the report and explanation. I've released this change as a bugfix release in v2.4.1.