“git checkout tag-name” vs “git reset --hard tag-name”

Question

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Answer 1

I wonder which one makes more sense for updating to a tag

Your production install should be checking out a tag.

Think of it this way: your production install is read-only. git reset --hard tag-name will modify the currently checked out branch.

Alternatively

It's common practice that in addition to creating a tag, you have one branch which is simply the latest release. In which case you'd e.g. merge to master and create a tag from there; and on your production installs you'd update simply with git pull (on master).