I have an open source project on GitHub: https://github.com/xrgarcia/alphavantage_api_client

When a visitor hits my landing page i want the REAME to point to a specific tag. At the moment it's 1.0.2.

How to set the default branch or tag for the landing page of my project?

I have tried looking at other GitHub projects (i.e. aws-sam) and i can see this is possible, but i haven't found the settings for it.

CodePudding user response：

I would prefer a tag be something i could set as what visitors see

Since it is not practical to switch default branches (as it does not reflect a tag), an alternative would be to:

• keep you main branch

• update your main/README with an INSTALLATION section stating the exact tag you want the user to clone your repository with:

  git clone --depth 1 --branch <tag_name> <repo_url>
  

--depth 1 is optional (shallow clone), but if you only need the state at that one revision, that would be enough.

However, nothing prevent you to make a branch named after a tag, and use that as your default branch.

That could also be a viable option.