1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
|
<!doctype html>
<html>
<title>npm-dist-tag</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" value="text/html;utf-8">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../static/style.css">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.npmjs.org/doc/cli/npm-dist-tag.html">
<script async=true src="../../static/toc.js"></script>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h1><a href="../cli/npm-dist-tag.html">npm-dist-tag</a></h1> <p>Modify package distribution tags</p>
<h2 id="synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<pre><code>npm dist-tag add <pkg>@<version> [<tag>]
npm dist-tag rm <pkg> <tag>
npm dist-tag ls [<pkg>]
aliases: dist-tags
</code></pre><h2 id="description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<p>Add, remove, and enumerate distribution tags on a package:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>add:
Tags the specified version of the package with the specified tag, or the
<code>--tag</code> config if not specified.</p>
</li>
<li><p>rm:
Clear a tag that is no longer in use from the package.</p>
</li>
<li><p>ls:
Show all of the dist-tags for a package, defaulting to the package in
the current prefix.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>A tag can be used when installing packages as a reference to a version instead
of using a specific version number:</p>
<pre><code>npm install <name>@<tag>
</code></pre><p>When installing dependencies, a preferred tagged version may be specified:</p>
<pre><code>npm install --tag <tag>
</code></pre><p>This also applies to <code>npm dedupe</code>.</p>
<p>Publishing a package sets the <code>latest</code> tag to the published version unless the
<code>--tag</code> option is used. For example, <code>npm publish --tag=beta</code>.</p>
<p>By default, <code>npm install <pkg></code> (without any <code>@<version></code> or <code>@<tag></code>
specifier) installs the <code>latest</code> tag.</p>
<h2 id="purpose">PURPOSE</h2>
<p>Tags can be used to provide an alias instead of version numbers.</p>
<p>For example, a project might choose to have multiple streams of development
and use a different tag for each stream,
e.g., <code>stable</code>, <code>beta</code>, <code>dev</code>, <code>canary</code>.</p>
<p>By default, the <code>latest</code> tag is used by npm to identify the current version of
a package, and <code>npm install <pkg></code> (without any <code>@<version></code> or <code>@<tag></code>
specifier) installs the <code>latest</code> tag. Typically, projects only use the <code>latest</code>
tag for stable release versions, and use other tags for unstable versions such
as prereleases.</p>
<p>The <code>next</code> tag is used by some projects to identify the upcoming version.</p>
<p>By default, other than <code>latest</code>, no tag has any special significance to npm
itself.</p>
<h2 id="caveats">CAVEATS</h2>
<p>This command used to be known as <code>npm tag</code>, which only created new tags, and so
had a different syntax.</p>
<p>Tags must share a namespace with version numbers, because they are specified in
the same slot: <code>npm install <pkg>@<version></code> vs <code>npm install <pkg>@<tag></code>.</p>
<p>Tags that can be interpreted as valid semver ranges will be rejected. For
example, <code>v1.4</code> cannot be used as a tag, because it is interpreted by semver as
<code>>=1.4.0 <1.5.0</code>. See <a href="https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/6082">https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/6082</a>.</p>
<p>The simplest way to avoid semver problems with tags is to use tags that do not
begin with a number or the letter <code>v</code>.</p>
<h2 id="see-also">SEE ALSO</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-tag.html">npm-tag(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-publish.html">npm-publish(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-install.html">npm-install(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-dedupe.html">npm-dedupe(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../misc/npm-registry.html">npm-registry(7)</a></li>
<li><a href="../cli/npm-config.html">npm-config(1)</a></li>
<li><a href="../misc/npm-config.html">npm-config(7)</a></li>
<li><a href="../files/npmrc.html">npmrc(5)</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<table border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 id=npmlogo>
<tr><td style="width:180px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=18> </td></tr>
<tr><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=4> </td><td rowspan=4 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td><td colspan=6 style="width:60px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=4> </td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=2 style="width:20px;height:30px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=4 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:20px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:20px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3 colspan=2> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=3> </td><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" rowspan=3> </td></tr>
<tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff" rowspan=2> </td></tr>
<tr><td style="width:10px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td></tr>
<tr><td style="width:60px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=6> </td><td colspan=10 style="width:10px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)"> </td></tr>
<tr><td colspan=5 style="width:50px;height:10px;background:#fff"> </td><td style="width:40px;height:10px;background:rgb(237,127,127)" colspan=4> </td><td style="width:90px;height:10px;background:#fff" colspan=9> </td></tr>
</table>
<p id="footer">npm-dist-tag — npm@3.9.5</p>
|