GIT Branch and Tag creation Using Stash

[Mohan Krishnan]

Hello ,

Does STASH web UI provides us an option to -

1) Create branches

2) Create Tags

3) Undo Commits

If not is there a paln to incorporate these features to Stash

Regards,

Mohan

[cofarrell · Accepted solution]

Hi Mohan,

Unfortunately Stash does not yet have a way to do anything of those things. That might actually make a nifty little plugin. As far as I'm aware there isn't a immediate plan to introduce that into Stash, although you're welcome to raise a feature request.

Undoing commits might be a little problematic given that unless it's the tip of branch there could be merge conflicts, which we couldn't do much about.

Cheers,

Charles

[Mohan Krishnan]

I guess we cannot view Tags as well in Stash Web GUI ?

If the branch and Tag creation facility is not inbuilt in Stash , How can we achieve this ?

[cofarrell]

Hey Mohan,

You can certainly view commits/files from a given tag by using the branch selector. Is that what you mean?

Creating branches/tags can be done locally on a cloned repository and then pushed to Stash. eg

git tag my_tag
git branch my_branch
git push origin my_tag my_branch

Cheers,

Charles

[Mohan Krishnan]

Thanks Charles .

Where can i find teh branch selector for a given tag ?

[cofarrell]

When you're viewing files or commits there is a branch selector up the top-left, where you can select a branch or tag to change the current view.

Charles

[Mohan Krishnan]

Thanks Charles , I will try out the stuff as you indicated.

Can we push/merge a branch to another branch using Stash ? I want to avoid the usage of pull requests and additionaly want to attach a commit messages with the push/merge operation.

Thanks again for all the help

[cofarrell]

Hi Mohan,

You can certainly do that. In Git you have to think of branches more as pointers or named references than a heavy 'branch. So creating a branch on another branch is as simple as "attaching" another pointer.

I recommend reading GitPro for more information about how Git works. I've found it helps make using Git a much more enjoyable experience.

Cheers,

Charles