How do you remove a tag from a remote repository

Question

Is it possible to untag a revision that has been push upstream using git.

This is what has happened:

 git tag 1.1
 git push --tags origin master

Doh! That was meant to be version 1.1beta

Can you rebase and repush upstream. No other member of my team has pulled from origin yet.

possible duplicate of [How to delete a remote git tag?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5480258/how-to-delete-a-remote-git-tag) — BuZZ-dEE, Mar 20 '14 at 08:53

Abizern · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-28T10:53:25.167

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You can delete a remote tag the same way that you delete a remote branch.

git push origin :1.1

And delete your local tag with:

git tag -d 1.1

edited May 28 '11 at 10:53

answered May 27 '11 at 12:03

Abizern

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I did: git tag -d 1.1 && git push origin :1.1 and that did the trick. Many thanks. – serby May 27 '11 at 12:10
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Because remember, a branch IS a tag, just one that moves its HEAD along with the lastest commit that belongs to it. Internally, they're exactly the same. – Dan Ray May 27 '11 at 12:56
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Actually - a lightweight tag is just like a branch. An annotated tag is an actual object, like a commit, that has a reference point to it. – Abizern May 27 '11 at 14:07
As of git version 2.7.4, if I try to delete the tag locally after the remote delete, I get error: tag '0.0.60' not found. I suppose it gets automatically deleted – Shadi Mar 23 '17 at 08:30
In case you need to delete _many_, _many_ tags, I figured out two ways to do this at least several magnitudes faster. The fastest is to include multiple `:tag` arguments to `git push`. The second uses the Github API to delete remote refs (tags) directly. (http://stackoverflow.com/a/43421561/657764) – TonyH Apr 15 '17 at 02:49

score 26 · Answer 2 · answered May 12 '14 at 13:15

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git push --delete origin TAGNAME

Of course, you still have to delete the tag locally by running:

git tag -d TAGNAME

answered May 12 '14 at 13:15

Flimm

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 17 '22 at 08:20

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Simply, you can give the following command once you are in the local repository path (using cmd,code editor,IDE).

git push origin :your_tag_name_to_be_deleted

answered Aug 17 '22 at 08:20

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