How to remove all git origin and local tags?

Question

How do you remove a git tag that has already been pushed? Delete all git remote (origin) tags and Delete all git local tags.

Culosio

Answer 1

1. Delete All local tags. (Optional Recommended)

   # Clears out all your local 
   git tag -d $(git tag -l)
   

2. Fetch remote All tags. (Optional Recommended)

   # All remote tags give you a complete list of remote tags locally
   git fetch
   

3. Delete All remote tags.

   # Note: pushing once should be faster than multiple times
   # Deletes the remote tags concerning the local
   git push origin --delete $(git tag -l) 
   

4. Delete All local tags.

   # Deletes the local tags after fetch 
   git tag -d $(git tag -l)
   

Culosio

If you got error message "argument list too long", which you probably would if you're trying to clear tags Use git tag -d $(git tag -l | head 100) – Courthouse

What's the difference between option 1 and 4? They are both git tag -d $(git tag -l). – Disposal

1) clears out all your local tags 2) retrieves all remote tags giving you a complete list of remote tags locally 3) deletes the remote tags with reference to the local list 4) deletes the local tags from step 2 – Countermove

minor fix for head syntax git tag -d $(git tag -l | head -n 100) – Regnal

I think on 3. it should be git push --delete origin $(git tag -l) – Thither

git tag -d $(git tag -l) fails on git 2.23 with error: switch `l' is incompatible with --delete – Discoverer

I had 90K local tags, so using head was not acceptable, the syntax that worked for me was git tag -l | xargs -L1 git tag --delete – Stamin

This mostly worked for me, but I had some tags on remote that didn't fetch to local for some reason. I had to do git fetch --tags --force in lieu of step 2, and that worked. – Karlise

Same as @turbanoff, 3rd step didn't work. I end up pushing those changes and it worked – Leavelle

For remote tags it would be better to tags="$(git tag -l)" && test -n "$tags" && printf " :refs/tags/%s " $tags | xargs git push origin in case any tag has the same name as some branch reference – Phosphaturia

on windows Powershell i had this issue git tag -d $(git tag -l) fails on git 2.23 with error: switch l'` i run it with wsl or git-bash and it worked – Straticulate

git push origin --delete $(git tag -l) failed for me with error fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs since git tag showed no local tags for me. So, I had to delete the remote tags manually. Here's how I did it. – Jealousy

I got error: switch l' : incompatible with --delete` – Boon

If you have a ton of tags, skip step 1. Complete waste of time. – Kandace

This won't always work because if you have local tags which no longer point to valid objects, then git tag -l will not print any of the ok tags and will just print errors for the bad tags rather than listing them: error: refs/tags/badtag does not point to a valid object! Is there some porcelain command that will list all tags without throwing these errors for the bad ones? – Leidaleiden

Answer 2

For windows using command prompt:

Deleting local tags:

for /f "tokens=* delims=" %a in ('git tag -l') do git tag -d %a

Deleting remote tags:

for /f "tokens=* delims=" %a in ('git tag -l') do git push --delete origin %a

Thither

When using PS: git tag -l | %{git tag -d $_} – Silent

For local tags: git tag -l | xargs git tag -d – Piassava

@Piassava - xargs is not native windows command and should be installed additionaly. – Thither

Wow, works, but isn't fast at all! About 5 dels per second on local trags deleting. – Vexillum

Answer 3

The main answer didn't work for me.

This failed:

git push origin --delete $(git tag -l)

Error:

fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs

That's because I had NO local tags!

git tag -l showed nothing, even after running git fetch to supposedly fetch all remote tags!

BUT, the following worked!:

Under certain, rare circumstances, where you have remote tags on GitHub but no local tags, for instance, you may need to manually specify the tags to delete.

Go to https://github.com/YOUR_USERNAME/YOUR_REPO_NAME/tags (ex: https://github.com/ElectricRCAircraftGuy/sublime_gcode/tags) to view all remote tags.

Mine showed tags 1.0.0 and 1.0.1. Delete them manually with:

To delete remote tags manually:

# General format to delete a **remote** tag on remote named "origin"
git push --delete origin <tag_name>

# My case exactly
git push --delete origin 1.0.0
git push --delete origin 1.0.1

To delete local tags manually:

# list all tags
git tag
# OR (same thing): 
git tag -l

# delete a local tag
git tag -d <tag_name>
# Example: delete local tag named `1.0.0`
git tag -d 1.0.0

Source where I learned all of this: https://devconnected.com/how-to-delete-local-and-remote-tags-on-git/

Jealousy

I'm just getting "remote: Repository not found fatal: repository 'https://...git not found" which seems odd, as via IntelliJ it is working – Bryna

Should execute fetch force before: git fetch --tags --force – Confident