How to list unpushed Git tags

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Ben Lings picture Ben Lings · Jul 3, 2012 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

I'd like to see which tags I have locally that aren't available on a particular remote. How can I do this? I know I can do git push --tags to push all of them. However, if there are some tags that I don't want pushed, how to I make sure I haven't missed some?

Answer

Ben Lings picture Ben Lings · Jul 3, 2012

You can use the following to see the tags that exist locally but not in the specified remote:

git show-ref --tags | grep -v -F "$(git ls-remote --tags <remote name> | grep -v '\^{}' | cut -f 2)"

Note that git ls-remote shows both the annotated tag and the commit it points to with ^{}, so we need to remove the duplicates.

An alternative is to use the --dry-run/-n flags to git push:

git push --tags --dry-run

This will show what changes would have been pushed, but won't actually make these changes.

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