CODEWITHSUNDEEP
gitpushatlassian-sourcetreegit-tag
Senseful
Senseful

Reputation: 91861

"Updates were rejected because the tag already exists" when attempting to push in SourceTree

When attempting to Push via Source Tree, I get the following error:

git -c diff.mnemonicprefix=false -c core.quotepath=false -c credential.helper=sourcetree push -v --tags origin refs/heads/master:refs/heads/master 
Pushing to https://[email protected]/repo.git
To https://[email protected]/repo.git
 = [up to date]      master -> master
...
 ! [rejected]        example_tag -> example_tag (already exists)
updating local tracking ref 'refs/remotes/origin/master'
error: failed to push some refs to 'https://[email protected]/repo.git'
hint: Updates were rejected because the tag already exists in the remote.
Completed with errors, see above

I didn't make any changes to this tag as far as I know. How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 209

Views: 142129

Answers (7)

ElinaH
ElinaH

Reputation: 11

I've tried all above and none of them worked for me. And then I found the easiest way...on Mac

  1. Open the hidden folder .git of your repo, then refs -> tags, find the rejected tag, and delete it.

  2. Back to Source Tree and click Fetch -> Fetch and store all tags locally, all should be fine.

Upvotes: 1

bytedev
bytedev

Reputation: 9119

You should also be able to solve this in git bash (click on "Terminal" button in the Source Tree UI). Type:

git pull --tags

If you have conflicting tags, you can include the -f option in the command to override the local conflicting tags with their remote versions.

git pull --tags -f

Upvotes: 394

Ogglas
Ogglas

Reputation: 70126

git pull --tags works really well but sometimes you can get an error even with this command. Example error message:

 ! [rejected]        example_tag      -> example_tag  (would clobber existing tag)

This can be solved with the command: git pull --tags -f

-f stands for force.

Source:

https://github.com/concourse/git-resource/issues/233

Upvotes: 54

John Berg
John Berg

Reputation: 115

In SourceTree, this seems to work:

  1. Click the Fetch icon
  2. Check "Fetch all tags"
  3. Click Ok

Upvotes: 3

Sudheer Kumar Palchuri
Sudheer Kumar Palchuri

Reputation: 2954

Make sure you uncheck the "Push all tags" button while push.

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Upvotes: 30

JDev-Guns
JDev-Guns

Reputation: 389

Uncheck push all tags at the bottom of the UI when you confirm your git push

Upvotes: 38

Senseful
Senseful

Reputation: 91861

If you have not made any local changes to the tag that you want to keep, then you can remove tag that was rejected because it already exists (example_tag in this case):

  1. Right-click the tag and choose to delete it (be sure to uncheck the Remove tag from all remotes checkbox).
  2. Choose the Fetch option (Fetch and store all tags locally does not have to be enabled).
  3. You should now have that tag that was just deleted back, and attempting to Push will no longer show that error message.

The reason this is common in SourceTree is because the Push all tags option is set to on by default. (Another way to hide this error is to uncheck that option.)

Upvotes: 144

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