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• git tag
• Prune local git tags that don't exist on remote

git tag reference

$ git tag
v0.1
v1.3
$ git tag -l "v1.8.5*"
v1.8.5
v1.8.5-rc0
v1.8.5-rc1
v1.8.5-rc2
v1.8.5-rc3

# Lightweight tags, a pointer to a specific commit.
$ git tag v1.4-lw

# Annotated tags, stored as full objects in the Git database
$ git tag -a v1.4 -m "my version 1.4"

$ git push origin v1.5
$ git push origin --tags # all local tags to remote

Prune local git tags that don't exist on remote howto

$ git tag -l | xargs git tag -d # remove all local tags
$ git fetch -t                  # fetch remote tags