Script to delete all tags both locally and remotely

git-deletealltags.bsh

for t in `git tag`
do
    git push origin :$t
    git tag -d $t
done

My update to this, deletes last 120 tags

num=0
for t in `git tag`
do
  if [ "$num" -ge 120 ]
    then
      break
  fi
  git push origin :$t
  git tag -d $t
  num=`expr $num + 1`
  echo "Removed $t"
done```

In case you're looking for a Windows Command version, look at https://gist.github.com/thephpdeveloper/5475696

thanks, this was helpful

This was too slow for me - have a look at this to make it happen much faster http://blog.siyelo.com/how-to-bulk-delete-remote-git-tags

@mrardon Thanks, greatly appreciated link

cool ..thanks ..it was helpful

I've made a (faster) Ruby version inspired in your script. Thanks!

Lovely! Thanks 👍

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@mrardon that link was awesome! thanks!! 😄

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mrardons version didn't work for me. Luckily I only had a few tags so I just used the slow version.

Thanks for this

First line removes all tags remotly, the next line removes all tags locally

git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin
git tag | xargs git tag -d

http://stackoverflow.com/a/19542426/1721611

It is so convenient! Thanks very much.

@simnalamburt that looks soo destructive, but I like it 😀

@mauris that Gist is a 404 now.

For anybody looking for a Windows version, I created a Gist below with the commands I used to remove all Tags on Windows. The Linux command xargs would not work. I would get an xargs: cannot fork: Permission denied error. Figured out I need to use the FOR command in Windows.

https://gist.github.com/RandomArray/fdaa427878952d9768b0

We use bitbucket to host our git repo, and the commands above didn't work. This one did:

for tag in `git tag -l`
do
  git tag -d $tag
  git push -v origin :refs/tags/$tag
done

Reference: https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucket/how-do-i-remove-or-delete-a-tag-from-a-git-repo-282175551.html

Very useful for cleaning up after testing some CI tools.

git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin

fatal: --delete doesn't make sense without any refs

@jmrobison, thanks, worked!

For the issue with --delete doesn't make sense without any refs here's how I delete all the tags for 1.3.* :
git ls-remote --tags origin | awk '/^(.*)(1\.3\.\d+)$/ {print ":" $2}' | xargs git push origin