On GIT After I removed a branch there are tags still exists. I used this command to delete local and then remote branch "brnch"
git branch -D "brnch"
git push origin --delete "brnch"
But the tags associated with the branch still exists. I am able to successfully check out the tag TAG from the deleted branch. It shows no branches but exists
$ git checkout TAG
$ git branch -a --contains TAG
* (HEAD detached at TAG)
How can I delete all the tags on the deleted branch locally and remotely ? including any commit ids on the branch. Complete clean up. Appreciate any help on this. I am bit confused here
I did this to cleanup the tags and commits linked to the deleted branches
first find out the tags those are not linked with any branches
git tag $(git branch --all --list --format="--no-merged %(refname:short)")
then deleted then like all other tags locally and remotely
git push origin -d "tagname"
git tag -d "tagname"
After deleting forcefully clean the cache else the commit hash can be referenced
git stash clear
git reflog expire --expire-unreachable=now --expire=now --all
git fsck --unreachable
git gc --prune=now --aggressive
You cannot control the cleanup in remote so what I did is deleted the remote and created an empty repo with the same name and then pushed the cleaned local repo. Using the command something similar to this.
git push --set-upstream -f origin --all
git push --set-upstream -f origin --tags
This is to make sure the commits and tags are immediately removed