A good release practice is to tag a certain Git revision to a version number each time you are doing a release.
This is done by tagging a release from the developer's machine and pushing tags into Gitlab. They will be picked up automatically by Dashboard. To get started, first check which tags are already available:
git tagIf you get no output, there's no tags.
Let's create a new tag. You can name the tag anything, but a typical scheme involves using version numbers. It's a good idea to establish a versioning scheme that is known to everyone in the team - you can for example use semantic versioning. It's also a good idea to create annotated tags so the information about the person doing the release is retained.
Create a new annotated tag called 1.0.0:
git tag -a 1.0.0 -m "First release."Tags don't get pushed automatically when you use git push - you need to request this specifically:
git push origin --tagsWhen deploying through the platform dashboard you can then select "Deploy a tagged version" (don't forget to "Fetch code" first!)