As much as I love GitBox, it doesn’t actually provide the ability to delete tags from within the interface:
GitBox and The WordPress Plugin Boilerplate
Sad, right?
Occasionally, there are times in which I need to remove a tag because I need to go back and make some final adjustments to a commit prior to pushing to my current branch (which is usually just master anyway).
This means that I need to hop over into Terminal to issue a few git commands in order to delete a Git tag from the command line.
Let’s say that you have a tag called 3.0 that you want to rollback. Luckily, this is a simple matter of issuing the following commands:
git tag -d 3.0 git push origin :refs/tags/3.0
You may be prompted to enter your username and password if you haven’t already. Other than that, you’re good to go.
Your console should result in something like the following:
Deleting a Git Tag in Terminal
Easy enough, right?
After this, you should be good to go to hop back into your Git client of choice.
I just wanted to chime in here. From what I can remember you can remove tags in gitbox in two ways:
1) Right click on the commit that has the tag and select ‘Delete Tag’
2) Or if you click on the cog. Switch to ‘Branches & Tags’. And delete the tags you want to remove. This screen also allows you to edit the .gitignore file, branches & remotes.
Hope this helps!
You’re right – at least, you should be able to right-click on the tag and select delete tag, but the client will actually infinitely block because (as best as I can tell) it’s waiting for the password for the username of the repo, but it never actually presents a dialog for which
Oh, I use SSH so never had an issue!
You can overcome this by setting the remotes url like so:
https://tom:password@github.com/tom/repo.git
Just swap tom for your github username and password for your password.
This stops the github from asking you for a password every time you push, which has the added benefit of making gitbox work.
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