Remove local git tags that are no longer on the remote repository

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We use tags in git as part of our deployment process   From time to time  we want to clean up these tags by removing them from our remote repository   This is pretty straightforward   One user deletes the local tag and the remote tag in one set of commands   We have a little shell script that combines both steps   The 2nd  3rd  4th      user now has local tags that are no longer reflected on the remote     I am looking for a command similar to git remote prune origin which cleans up locally tracking branches for which the remote branch has been deleted   Alternatively  a simple command to list remote tags could be used to compare to the local tags returned via git tag -l

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Show the difference between local and remote tags:

diff <(git tag | sort) <( git ls-remote --tags origin | cut -f2 | grep -v '\^' | sed 's#refs/tags/##' | sort)

git tag gives the list of local tags
git ls-remote --tags gives the list of full paths to remote tags
cut -f2 | grep -v '\^' | sed 's#refs/tags/##' parses out just the tag name from list of remote tag paths
Finally we sort each of the two lists and diff them

The lines starting with "< " are your local tags that are no longer in the remote repo. If they are few, you can remove them manually one by one, if they are many, you do more grep-ing and piping to automate it.

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All versions of Git since v1 7 8 understand git fetch with a refspec  whereas since v1 9 0 the --tags option overrides the --prune option  For a general purpose solution  try this     git --version git version 2 1 3    git fetch --prune origin   refs tags   refs tags    From ssh   xxx  x  deleted           none      - gt  rel test   For further reading on how the  --tags  with  --prune  behavior changed in Git v1 9 0  see  https   github com git git commit e66ef7ae6f31f246dead62f574cc2acb75fd001c

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I add the command to SourceTree as a Custom Action on my MacOS    Setting Custom Actions by Sourcetree -  Preferences    -  Custom Actions   Script to run have to be the git path    I use git fetch --prune --prune-tags origin to sync tags from remote to local

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Git natively supports cleanup of local tags   git fetch --tags --prune   This command pulls in the latest tags and removes all deleted tags

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If you only want those tags which exist on the remote  simply delete all your local tags     git tag -d   git tag    And then fetch all the remote tags     git fetch --tags

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This is great question  I d been wondering the same thing   I didn t want to write a script so sought a different solution   The key is discovering that you can delete a tag locally  then use git fetch to  get it back  from the remote server   If the tag doesn t exist on the remote  then it will remain deleted   Thus you need to type two lines in order   git tag -l   xargs git tag -d git fetch --tags   These    Delete all tags from the local repo   FWIW  xargs places each tag output by  tag -l  onto the command line for  tag -d    Without this  git won t delete anything because it doesn t read stdin  silly git   Fetch all active tags from the remote repo    This even works a treat on Windows

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From Git v1 7 8 to v1 8 5 6  you can use this   git fetch  lt remote gt  --prune --tags   Update  This doesn t work on newer versions of git  starting with v1 9 0  because of commit e66ef7ae6f31f2  I don t really want to delete it though since it did work for some people   As suggested by  Chad Juliano   with all Git version since v1 7 8  you can use the following command   git fetch --prune  lt remote gt   refs tags   refs tags     You may need to enclose the tags part with quotes  on Windows for example  to avoid wildcard expansion   git fetch --prune  lt remote gt    refs tags   refs tags

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I know I m late to the party  but now there s a quick answer to this   git fetch --prune --prune-tags   or just git fetch -p -P   Yes  it s now an option to fetch   If you don t want to fetch  and just prune   git remote prune origin

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Good question       I don t have a complete answer     That said  you can get a list of remote tags via git ls-remote   To list the tags in the repository referenced by origin  you d run   git ls-remote --tags origin   That returns a list of hashes and friendly tag names  like   94bf6de8315d9a7b22385e86e1f5add9183bcb3c        refs tags v0 1 3 cc047da6604bdd9a0e5ecbba3375ba6f09eed09d        refs tags v0 1 4     2f2e45bedf67dedb8d1dc0d02612345ee5c893f2        refs tags v0 5 4   You could certainly put together a bash script to compare the tags generated by this list with the tags you have locally   Take a look at git show-ref --tags  which generates the tag names in the same form as git ls-remote      As an aside  git show-ref has an option that does the opposite of what you d like   The following command would list all the tags on the remote branch that you don t have locally   git ls-remote --tags origin   git show-ref --tags --exclude-existing

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TortoiseGit can compare tags now   Left log is on remote  right is at local     Using the Compare tags feature of Sync dialog     Also see TortoiseGit issue 2973

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Just added a git sync-local-tags command to pivotal git scripts Gem fork on GitHub   https   github com kigster git scripts  Install the gem  then run  git sync-local-tags  in your repository to delete the local tags that do not exist on the remote     Alternatively you can just install this script below and call it  git-sync-local-tags         usr bin env ruby    Delete tags from the local Git repository  which are not found on    a remote origin     Usage  git sync-local-tags  -n           if -n is passed  just print the tag to be deleted  but do not           actually delete it      Author  Konstantin Gredeskoul  http   tektastic com                                                                             class TagSynchronizer   def self local tags      git show-ref --tags   awk   print  2    split   n     end    def self remote tags      git ls-remote --tags origin   awk   print  2    split   n     end    def self orphaned tags     self local tags - self remote tags   end    def self remove unused tags print only   false      self orphaned tags each do  ref        tag   ref gsub  refs  tags              puts  deleting local tag   tag          git tag -d   tag   unless print only     end   end end  unless File exists    git     puts  This doesn t look like a git repository     exit 1 end  print only   ARGV include   -n   TagSynchronizer remove unused tags print only

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The same answer as  Richard W but for Windows  PowerShell   git tag   foreach-object -process   git tag -d      git fetch -t

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this is a good method   git tag -l   xargs git tag -d  amp  amp  git fetch -t  Source  demisx GitHub io

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In new git version like v2 26 2      -P  --prune-tags              Before fetching  remove any local tags that no longer exist on the remote if --prune is enabled  This option should be used more carefully  unlike --prune it will remove any local references  local tags               that have been created  This option is a shorthand for providing the explicit tag refspec along with --prune  see the discussion about that in its documentation    So you would need run   git fetch august --prune --prune-tags

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How about this - drop all local tags and then re-fetch  Considering your repo might contain submodules   git submodule foreach --recursive   git tag   xargs git tag -d   alternatively   for i in  find  git  -type d -name   tags     do rm -f  i     done   git fetch -t git submodule foreach --recursive git fetch -t

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Looks like recentish versions of Git  I m on git v2 20  allow one to simply say  git fetch --prune --prune-tags   Much cleaner   https   git-scm com docs git-fetch  pruning  You can also configure git to always prune tags when fetching   git config fetch pruneTags true   If you only want to prune tags when fetching from a specific remote  you can use the remote  lt remote gt  pruneTags option   For example  to always prune tags when fetching from origin but not other remotes   git config remote origin pruneTags true

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