How to delete a remote tag?
How to delete a remote tag?
Accepted Answer
You just need to push an 'empty' reference to the remote tag name:
git push origin :tagname
Or, more expressively, use the --delete option (or -d if your git version is older than 1.8.0):
git push --delete origin tagname
Note that git has tag namespace and branch namespace so you may use the same name for a branch and for a tag. If you want to make sure that you cannot accidentally remove the branch instead of the tag, you can specify full ref which will never delete a branch:
git push origin :refs/tags/tagname
If you also need to delete the local tag, use:
git tag --delete tagname
Background
Pushing a branch, tag, or other ref to a remote repository involves specifying "which repo, what source, what destination?"
git push remote-repo source-ref:destination-ref
A real world example where you push your master branch to the origin's master branch is:
git push origin refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master
Which because of default paths, can be shortened to:
git push origin master:master
Tags work the same way:
git push origin refs/tags/release-1.0:refs/tags/release-1.0
Which can also be shortened to:
git push origin release-1.0:release-1.0
By omitting the source ref (the part before the colon), you push 'nothing' to the destination, deleting the ref on the remote end.
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A more straightforward way is
git push --delete origin YOUR_TAG_NAME
IMO prefixing colon syntax is a little bit odd in this situation
If you have a remote tag v0.1.0 to delete, and your remote is origin, then simply:
git push origin :refs/tags/v0.1.0
If you also need to delete the tag locally:
git tag -d v0.1.0
See Adam Franco's answer for an explanation of Git's unusual : syntax for deletion.
Delete all local tags and get the list of remote tags:
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
git fetch
Remove all remote tags
git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin
Clean up local tags
git tag -l | xargs git tag -d
To remove the tag from the remote repository:
git push --delete origin TAGNAME
You may also want to delete the tag locally:
git tag -d TAGNAME
git tag -d your_tag_name
git push origin :refs/tags/your_tag_name
First line, deletes your_tag_name from local repo and second line deletes your_tag_name from remote repo. Finally, discard draft in your github.
