Delete Remote Git Tags

Tagging releases with Git is a good idea. In case your tags get off track, here is how you delete a Git tag locally and on a remote:

$ git tag -d abc
$ git push origin :refs/tags/abc
To git@github.com:hashrocket/hr-til
 - [deleted]         abc

It gets trickier if you're using Semantic Versioning, which includes dots in the tag name. The above won't work for v16.0.0. This will:

$ git tag -d v16.0.0
$ git push origin :v16.0.0
To git@github.com:hashrocket/hr-til
 - [deleted]         v16.0.0

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