Mass-Delete Git Tags

Building off this post:

I'm an advocate of Semantic Version tagging. It communicates to a team about every deploy and makes that rare rollback easier. So when does it not make sense to use a tag?

When you're the only developer (nobody to communicate with except yourself), and also using a platform like Heroku that tags every release (your tags are redundant). This the case with my blog, so today I set out to delete all my Git tags.

First, delete them remotely (assuming a remote named origin):

$ git tag | xargs git push --delete origin

We also have to delete our local tags, or a tag push with create them again on the remote:

$ git tag | xargs git tag -d

$ git tag now returns nothing, and there are no remote tags.

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