My project has now more than 50 tags,most of them are in remote and local , and I would like to save the unused ones, remove them, but keeping the possibility to restore one or more of them later.

I don't see any mean to do it, does anyone has a clue ?

CodePudding user response：

You could generate a list of commands to re-add current tags using

git tag --format="git tag %(refname:strip=2) %(objectname)"

Also you could run git pack-refs --all and then backup .git/packed-refs
(It's a text-file that will contain all refs, e.g. tags; after running git pack-refs --all. Otherwise some tags may only be found in .git/refs/tags/)