How to tag a certain changeset in Git?

Question

I am trying to find out how to tag a changeset that occurred earlier in the history. I am doing this as a feature part of a program, so, I can't do checkout and then tag, because the working copy may not be clean, and I dare not to modify the stash either because it may already contain something.

Answer 1

See the man:

git tag <tagname> <commit>

Answer 2

Just use:

git tag tag_name commit_hash

More on tags: Git tags in the Git Community Book.