From d4f4b8f1d8e954a5fe729d92589fc3e6f98377de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Beusterien <paulbeusterien@google.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2020 09:49:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Post-release 7.0 merge to master  (#6836)

---
 ReleaseTooling/Sources/FirebaseReleaser/Tags.swift | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ReleaseTooling/Sources/FirebaseReleaser/Tags.swift b/ReleaseTooling/Sources/FirebaseReleaser/Tags.swift
index 94c88a94a38..40006328d3b 100644
--- a/ReleaseTooling/Sources/FirebaseReleaser/Tags.swift
+++ b/ReleaseTooling/Sources/FirebaseReleaser/Tags.swift
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ import Utils
 
 enum Tags {
   static func createTags(gitRoot: URL, deleteExistingTags: Bool = false) {
+    if deleteExistingTags {
+      verifyTagsAreSafeToDelete(gitRoot: gitRoot)
+    }
     let manifest = FirebaseManifest.shared
     createTag(gitRoot: gitRoot, tag: "CocoaPods-\(manifest.version)",
               deleteExistingTags: deleteExistingTags)
@@ -45,7 +48,6 @@ enum Tags {
 
   private static func createTag(gitRoot: URL, tag: String, deleteExistingTags: Bool) {
     if deleteExistingTags {
-      verifyTagsAreSafeToDelete(gitRoot: gitRoot)
       Shell.executeCommand("git tag --delete \(tag)", workingDir: gitRoot)
       Shell.executeCommand("git push --delete origin \(tag)", workingDir: gitRoot)
     } else {