Git: distinguish between local and remote tags

Question

If there are tags in the remote repository, I\'m usually getting them automatically when pulling. When I delete the created local tag (git tag -d )

Answer 1

a tag isn't "local" or "remote": it is associated to a commit, which can part of multiple branches, including ones in the remotes namespace.

Get tag SHA1 of the commit referenced by a tag

git show -s 'TAG_NAME^{commit}' --format='%H'

, and do a :

git branch -a --contains SHA1

If you see

 remotes/aRemoteRepoName/aBranch

you know that tag references a commit you have fetched from a remote repo.

As Chris mentions:

git branch -a --contains TAGNAME

will dereference the tag and gives the answer in one go.