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From: Eric Chamberland <Eric.Chamberland@giref.ulaval.ca>
Subject: Re: [feature request] 2) Remove many tags at once and 1) Prune tags
 on old-branch-before-rebase
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 14:37:21 -0500
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Hi Junio,

On 03/07/2013 06:33 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Eric Chamberland <Eric.Chamberland@giref.ulaval.ca> writes:
>
> What you want is a way to compute, given a set of tags (or refs in
> general) and a set of branches (or another set of refs in general),
> find the ones in the former that none of the latter can reach.  With
> that, you can drive "git tag -d $(that way)".
>

Yes, this is *exactly* what I want...

> In other words, the feature does not belong to "git tag" command.
>
>> 2) git tag -d "TOKEN*"
>
> Again, not interesting.  You already have:
>
>      git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags/TOKEN\* |
>      xargs -r git tag -d
>

I don't agree here for one reason:

git tag -l "TOKEN*"

already exists and works very well...

So why is it not interesting to have:

git tag -d "TOKEN*"

?

We can also write:

git tag -d `git tag -l "TOKEN*"`

but a simple addition to "-d" feature looks like a receivable behavior 
here, no?

Thanks,

Eric