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Bash script to rename a git tag
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rename-tag.sh
#!/bin/bash
oldTag=$1
newTag=$2
tmpTag=$2-tmp
echo "* Running command: git tag $tmpTag $oldTag"
git tag $tmpTag $oldTag
echo
echo "* Running command: git tag -d $oldTag"
git tag -d $oldTag
echo
echo "* Running command: git push origin :refs/tags/$oldTag"
git push origin :refs/tags/$oldTag
echo
echo "* Running command: git tag $newTag $tmpTag"
git tag $newTag $tmpTag
echo
echo "* Running command: git tag -d $tmpTag"
git tag -d $tmpTag
echo
echo "* Running command: git push origin $newTag"
git push origin $newTag
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Otiel commented Jun 21, 2019 •
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Usage:

./rename-tag.sh oldTag newTag

This script uses a temporary tag in order to be able to rename tags by changing only the case of the characters. For instance, it is not possible to directly do:

git tag v1.0.0 V1.0.0
git tag -d V1.0.0

Because that will remove both tags V1.0.0 and v1.0.0.

Some useful links:

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