Delete git tags local and remote.

These may come in real handy when setting up code commit infrastructure.

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I was setting up code commit conventions, change log and release infrastructure in React & Angular codebases. It used the following things.

• Code commit conventions for message formatting.
• Version bumping and change log with standard-release.
• Setting up and/or updating README.md and CONTRIBUTING.md.

While doing this, many tags were created for testing in the branch. I wanted to avoid having all those future tags in the repo.

Hence, I needed to do the following.

1. List all the tags meant for future releases.
2. Delete them in the local branch.
3. Delete them in the remote branch.

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LIST

List all the tags

List all the tags, plus with matching pattern.

git tag --list

# Matching a pattern
git tag --list 'v*'
# The above matches tags starting with the letter "v"

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DELETE

Delete the tags in the local and remote branch.

Local

git tag -d TAG1 TAG2 TAG3

# or

git tag --delete TAG1 TAG2 TAG3

Remote

git push origin -d TAG1 TAG2 TAG3

# or

git push origin --delete TAG1 TAG2 TAG3

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The above commands will come in handy in a lot of different situations.

Best!

Srini @ RoverHead