You need to replace "ref_to_delete" with the reference you want to delete...
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On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:04 PM, joshua-choi <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Thanks for the reply. However, I then get the following error:
> error: unable to push to unqualified destination: ref_to_delete
> The destination refspec neither matches an existing ref on the remote
> nor
> begins with refs/, and we are unable to guess a prefix based on the
> source ref.
> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> error: failed to push some refs to '[email protected]:joshua-choi/
> fnparse.git'
>
> On May 14, 6:03 pm, Tekkub <[email protected]> wrote:
> > To delete remote branches and tags, you must use `git push origin
> > :ref_to_delete`
> >
> > On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:20 PM, joshua-choi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I'm a newbie at Git. Okay, so I want to delete a tag called "2.0" from
> > > a repository (http://github.com/joshua-choi/fnparse). Following this
> > > article (http://blog.ashchan.com/archive/2008/06/30/tags-on-git/):
> > > > git tag -d 2.0
> > > > git push origin
> >
> > > When I enter the second command, the terminal reports that there are
> > > no changes to be pushed, and the tag doesn't disappear from the remote
> > > repository's Downloads page. It's definitely deleted locally; if I
> > > enter "git tag -l", the 2.0 tag is indeed gone.
> >
> > > What can I do to delete the tag remotely?
> >
>

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