Remove or edit an unpushed Git tag [duplicate]

Question

In our company we use Git tags to trigger production builds. I just created a tag locally with

git tag -m "Tag message"

but realize I've made a typo mistake, which will mess up with the production build if I share the tag (push it to remote).

Can I remove or amend the tag as I would be able to do with commits? I haven't pushed the tag to the remote repository yet.

Answer 1

Delete a local tag with

git tag -d tag_name

Delete a remote tag with

git push origin :refs/tags/tag_name

However, the command git tag -m "Tag message" wont work as you aren't supplying a tag name. You may find that you haven't actually created a tag yet

You can list all your tags with

git tag --list