How to delete Git tags

Tags work as an additional identifier for a particular incident. And in the case of Git, Tags are used as the reference points in your development workflow and it denotes special events like a new version release or new commit. You can create a new tag to give a reference for your newly launched version.

We use tags for future reference of our previous releases and commits. And we can create and delete as per our convenience.

1. To delete a tag from a local repository, We can use the “git tag -d” command followed by the tag name you want to delete. For example:

   git tag -d [tagName]
   

   So if you want to delete a tag v1.4 then you can execute:

   git tag -d v1.4 
   

2. To delete tags from the remote repository, Execute the following command:

   git push origin --delete origin [tagName] 
   

3. You can also use the git push command to delete a tag by specifying the tag name by refs syntax.

   git push origin :refs/tags/[tagName] 
   

4. If you want to check if your tags have been deleted or not then you can list them all using “-l”

   git tag -l