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 &lt;pkg&gt;@&lt;version&gt;</code> vs <code>npm install &lt;pkg&gt;@&lt;tag&gt;</c