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Expand Up @@ -217,6 +217,27 @@ To git@github.com:schacon/simplegit.git

Now, when someone else clones or pulls from your repository, they will get all your tags as well.

==== Deleting Tags

To delete a tag on your local repository, you can use `git tag -d <tagname>`.
For example, we could remove our lightweight tag above as follows:

[source,console]
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$ git tag -d v1.4-lw
Deleted tag 'v1.4-lw' (was e7d5add)
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Note that this does not remove the tag from any remote servers.
In order to update any remotes, you must use `git push <remote> :refs/tags/<tagname>`:

[source,console]
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$ git push origin :refs/tags/v1.4-lw
To /git@github.com:schacon/simplegit.git
- [deleted] v1.4-lw
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==== Checking out Tags

If you want to view the versions of files a tag is pointing to, you can do a git checkout, though this puts your repository in ``detached HEAD'' state, which has some ill side effects:
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