In git how can I delete all tags(local and remote) except the latest one

Question

I want to delete all the tags (local and remote) in my git repo except the latest one. I have read the posts about deleting all tags but could not find the info about deleting them selectively i.e. delete all tags except the latest one

Answer 1

Somehow I found the answer on Stack Overflow itself. Customized it a bit with my needs.

Delete all remote tags but keep latest

git describe --abbrev=0 --tags `git rev-list --tags --skip=1` | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin

Delete all local tags but keep latest

git describe --abbrev=0 --tags `git rev-list --tags --skip=1` | xargs -n 1 git tag -d

Answer 2

To delete locally all tags:

git tag -d `git tag | grep -E '.'`

Note: Windows users will need to replace grep -E with findstr

The original solution was found here.