Deleting tags in Git - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the command to delete a local Git tag named 'v1.0'.

Git

git tag [1] v1.0

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-D

B-d

C--delete-remote

D-r

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -D deletes forcefully, which is not needed here.

Using -r deletes remote tags, not local.

Use -d to delete a local tag safely.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the command to delete a remote Git tag named 'release-2'.

Git

git push origin [1] :refs/tags/release-2

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

Arm

Bdelete

Cremove

D--delete

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using 'delete' without dashes is invalid.

Using 'remove' or 'rm' are not valid git push options.

Use --delete with git push to remove a remote tag.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to delete a remote tag named 'beta'.

Git

git push origin [1] beta

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A--delete

B:refs/tags/beta

C-d

Ddelete

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the tag name alone without --delete does not delete the tag.

Using -d is for local tags only.

The correct way to delete a remote tag is using git push origin --delete tagname.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to delete a local tag 'v3.0' and then delete it from the remote named 'origin'.

Git

git tag [1] v3.0 && git push origin [2] v3.0

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-d

B--delete

C-D

Dremove

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -D locally deletes forcefully, which is not always needed.

Using 'remove' is not a valid git option.

Use -d to delete local tags and --delete to delete remote tags.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to delete a local tag 'test', force delete a local tag 'old', and delete a remote tag 'prod' from 'origin'.

Git

git tag [1] test && git tag [2] old && git push origin [3] prod

Drag options to blanks, or click blank then click option'

A-d

B-D

C--delete

D-r

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using -r is for remote refs but not for deleting tags.

Confusing -d and -D for local deletes.

Use -d for normal local delete, -D to force delete local tags, and --delete to remove remote tags.