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To delete a local git tag simply run the "git tag" command with the -d option and tag name. To know the tag name you can run the "git tag" command with the -l option to list all tags, identify the tag you want to delete.
In order to delete a remote Git tag, use the “git push” command with the “–delete” option and specify the tag name. To delete a remote Git tag, you can also use the “git push” command and specify the tag name using the refs syntax.
In order to delete files recursively on Git, you have to use the “git rm” command with the “-r” option for recursive and specify the list of files to be deleted. This is particularly handy when you need to delete an entire directory or a subset of files inside a directory.
Deleting tagsRight-click the commit. If a commit has only one tag, click Delete Tag TAG NAME. If a commit has multiple tags, hover over Delete Tag... and then click the tag that you want to delete.
git tag | xargs git tag -d
Simply follow the Unix philosophy where you pipe everything.
On Windows use git bash with the same command.
To delete remote tags (before deleting local tags) simply do:
git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin
and then delete the local copies:
git tag | xargs git tag -d
It may be more efficient to push delete all the tags in one command. Especially if you have several hundred.
In a suitable non-windows shell, delete all remote tags:
git tag | xargs -L 1 | xargs git push origin --delete
Then delete all local tags:
git tag | xargs -L 1 | xargs git tag --delete
This should be OK as long as you don't have a ' in your tag names. For that, the following commands should be OK.
git tag | xargs -I{} echo '"{}"' | tr \\n \\0 | xargs --null git push origin --delete
git tag | xargs -I{} echo '"{}"' | tr \\n \\0 | xargs --null git tag --delete
Other ways of taking a list of lines, wrapping them in quotes, making them a single line and then passing that line to a command probably exist. Considering this is the ultimate cat skinning environment and all.
For Windows users using PowerShell:
git tag | foreach-object -process { git tag -d $_ }
This deletes all tags returned by git tag by executing git tag -d for each line returned.
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