GitHub tags shown on wrong commit

Question

So I have a project with two branches: master and stable. master is where feature and bug branches are split from and merged into. The master branch is merged into stable for every release. I'm trying to follow this workflow. So I just released a new version, merged master into stable and tagged the merge commit. Locally, git log looks like this:

So the tag v1.1.0 should appear on commit 31b58ba right? On GitHub, the release was picked up and looks like this:

But when I click the commit link under the tag name on the left, I see this:

No tag to be found. Now here's the interesting part (for me at least), when I visit a previous release, tagged v1.0.0, I see this:

Both tags are seen on this commit. I am pretty new to Git tags and GitHub releases so there is a very big chance that I'm misunderstanding something here. One thing I noticed is that the v1.0.0 tag is on the master branch (default branch) while the v1.1.0 tag is on the stable branch. I'm not sure if that could have anything to do with it. Please enlighten me.

Answer 1

You may not have pushed the update to the tag reference. So github has the merge commit, but did not update the tag location.

Use the same convention as branches:

git push origin v1.0.0

Tags don't refer to branches, only commit references.