One of the most powerful parts of writing web applications in the modern era is how we can quickly create an application that does a lot with just a little bit of our code by using open-source packages. Have you ever wanted to contribute a package to the community for others to use?
We talked about this in our article on Composer, and we prefer to have a copy of Composer in each project we’re working on.
Now that you’re a package maintainer, we need to get some versions of our package out for others to use.
A Git tag allows us to create what is essentially a label for a specific commit of the source code repository.