Undo tag that's not pushed in Git

Question

I've made a commit and a tag (using git tag -a -m ). I found out before I pushed that I needed to revert the commit so I used git revert --soft HEAD~. How do I also remove the tag? I've checked with git push --tags --dry-run that it hasn't been pushed yet, so I hope it's possible to remove.

Epifaniaepifano

There is no --soft flag for git revert. Did you mean git reset? – Kindness

Answer 1

Just run the following command from the branch where you created the tag:

git tag -d <tag name>

Even if you pushed the tag already it is still possible to remove it. Check out this useful blog post.

Mccreary

In case that (very helpful) blog post goes away, the syntax for deleting the remote tag is: git push origin :refs/tags/<tag name> – Cumuliform