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How do you delete a Git tag that has already been pushed?
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Use Git to delete a Git tag To delete the Git tag from the local repo, run the git tag -d tag-name command where tag-name is the name of the Git tag you want to delete.
To delete a remote branch, you can't use the git branch command. Instead, use the git push command with --delete flag, followed by the name of the branch you want to delete. You also need to specify the remote name ( origin in this case) after git push .
You can push an 'empty' reference to the remote tag name:
git push origin :tagname Or, more expressively, use the --delete option (or -d if your git version is older than 1.8.0):
git push --delete origin tagname Note that git has tag namespace and branch namespace so you may use the same name for a branch and for a tag. If you want to make sure that you cannot accidentally remove the branch instead of the tag, you can specify full ref which will never delete a branch:
git push origin :refs/tags/tagname If you also need to delete the local tag, use:
git tag --delete tagname Pushing a branch, tag, or other ref to a remote repository involves specifying "which repo, what source, what destination?"
git push remote-repo source-ref:destination-ref A real world example where you push your master branch to the origin's master branch is:
git push origin refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master Which because of default paths, can be shortened to:
git push origin master:master Tags work the same way:
git push origin refs/tags/release-1.0:refs/tags/release-1.0 Which can also be shortened to:
git push origin release-1.0:release-1.0 By omitting the source ref (the part before the colon), you push 'nothing' to the destination, deleting the ref on the remote end.
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A more straightforward way is
git push --delete origin YOUR_TAG_NAME IMO prefixing colon syntax is a little bit odd in this situation
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