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Florian Stoica
Florian Stoica

Reputation: 99

Cannot delete GIT tag because of special character "Ã"

A tag was created that contains "Ã" in the name, I am unable to delete the tag tried the following:

git tag -d -- xxÃxx
git push origin :refs/tags/xxÃxx

git config --global core.precomposeunicode true
git tag -d -- xxÃxx
git push origin :refs/tags/xxÃxx

Tried also with double quote for the name.

When executing the commands git says that the tag was deleted: Local delete:

Deleted tag 'xxÃxx' (was 434eae7)

After push:

remote: warning: Allowing deletion of corrupt ref.
 - [deleted]         xxÃxx

Tag "xxÃxx" comes as new at every git fetch -p or git pull(event after two consecutive pulls).

Also tried to delete the tag from source tree but the tag appears again.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1857

Answers (3)

dpolivaev
dpolivaev

Reputation: 558

In a similar case I used combination of echo and xargs as follows to delete bad tag containing wrong unicode character \u0083:

echo -e '\u0083release-1.7.5-hotfix1' |xargs git tag -d
echo -e '\u0083release-1.7.5-hotfix1' |xargs git push --delete origin

Upvotes: 4

shuki
shuki

Reputation: 157

I'm probably just too stubborn, but I wanted to find a solution that doesn't involve deleting the repo and cloning it again - so here it is.

My bad tag was ◊v2.2.29.

Adding a ref in .git/packed-refs did the trick for me. Just duplicate (or add) a line in the packed-refs file and change the tag to your problematic one, in the format:

1ea677c29c1db49a284b3a0b44a5e96fda873da2 refs/tags/◊v2.2.29

You don't need to know the real object id for that tag, but you do need a valid one from your project. In my example 1ea677c29c1db49a284b3a0b44a5e96fda873da2 is just an object id of a different tag I had (it doesn't matter which of course - just pick one from a different line in the same file), and the issue is resolved.

Side note: If you give an object id that doesn't exist at all git will either complain it's invalid or just keep treating it as a new tag, depending on whether you got the structure right or not.

Upvotes: 1

Florian Stoica
Florian Stoica

Reputation: 99

In order to stop receiving tag 'xxÃxx' as a new tag at every pull/fetch. I've made a clone of the repository.

I did not find a solution on how to actually delete the tag, but this is acceptable for me.

Special thanks to @VonC.

Upvotes: 1

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