Git tags are shown, although I removed them

Question

I removed some tags by doing:

• git tag -d TAGNAME
• git push origin :refs/tags/TAGNAME

After that, I asked all team members to run:

• git tag -d $(git tag) - remove all local tags
• git fetch --tags - to retrieve the current tags from a remote device.

The problem is that from time to time I see old tags again. I suspect that someone still has some old tags and they didn’t delete them or pull them out before I deleted them or so.

Is there a way to completely remove the tag?

For example, to make a commit that removes old tags, and therefore, before users can click, they will have to pull out this message and thus change their tags. Is it possible?

Answer 1

When deleting remote branches, you must git remote prune origin to completely remove these remote branches from the working copy.

Since the tags are almost the same as the branches, I assume you need to trim too.

git fetch also knows the --prune , so either

 git remote prune origin 

or

 git fetch --prune 

gotta do the trick.

This is an additional security measure: fetch only updates known remote branches and introduces new ones, but does not delete them unless --prune requested.