How can I remove a tag from npm?

Question

I've published a grunt plugin to npm that's been tracking the grunt 0.4 RCs by using the master tag. I've been publishing with:

npm publish --tag master

Now that grunt 0.4 final has been released, I've re-published my plugin as latest via:

npm publish

How can I now remove the master tag from the npm repository? It is still listed in dist-tags when I npm view [my-plugin].

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

It was not possible to remove dist-tags from the npm registry prior to [email protected]. There is now a command-line syntax for this, provided you update to a new version of npm -- see https://github.com/npm/npm/wiki/Troubleshooting#try-the-latest-stable-version-of-npm for full details on upgrading.

Install latest version of npm

npm install -g npm    # most common way to upgrade

Clear a tag that is no longer in use from the package.

npm dist-tag rm <pkg> <tag>

Answer 2

master may be in your npm config.

check what this gives:

npm config get tag

To get back to use latest, this should do:

npm config set tag latest

An other possibility is to un-publish the version with the master tag using:

npm unpublish <name>[@<version>]

this is likely to remove the tag in dist-tags (but since I haven't tried, not certain).