Tuesday, July 2, 2013

Delete tags

To delete tags in git that match some regex, both locally and remotely, I use these two commands

# remove tags on origin
git ls-remote --tags  | awk '/tags\/release.*[^\}]$/ {print ":" $2}' | xargs git push origin

# remove locally
git tag -l | awk '/^release.*$/ {print $1}' | xargs git tag -d