“tag already exists in the remote" error after recreating the git tag

Question

I get the following error after I run the steps below:

To git@provider.com:username/repo-name.git
 ! [rejected]        dev -> dev (already exists)
error:          


        

Answer 1

It seems that I'm late on this issue and/or it has already been answered, but, what could be done is: (in my case, I had only one tag locally so.. I deleted the old tag and retagged it with:

git tag -d v1.0
git tag -a v1.0 -m "My commit message"

Then:

git push --tags -f

That will update all tags on remote.

Could be dangerous! Use at own risk.