Cleaning up unused tags is an important part of Git housekeeping. This guide will show you how to delete tags from both local and remote Git repositories.
Johngit push --delete origin <tag_name>
git tag -d <tag_name>Continue reading to see a breakdown of each command.
As of Git 1.7.0 you can use git push --delete to delete a remote branch or tag.
git push --delete <remote_name> <tag_name>In most cases, the remote name is origin, so you'll use:
git push --delete origin <tag_name>Deleting a tag from your local repository is easy:
git tag -d <tag_name>So, git tag -a <tag_name> adds a tag, and git tag -d <tag_name> deletes a tag.
Sometimes we start writing code without managing our branches in advance. Then we make commits in master (or some other base branch) when we intended to carve off a new feature branch.