Weird result when deleting/recreating a tag from a pipeline job

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Hello !

Am i quite confused by the result i get when trying to delete and recreate a tag from the pipeline…

Here is an my YAML example, using a var called GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN containing a project access token with all rights checked.

stages: 
  - tag

tag-delivery:
  stage: tag
  image: node:17.3.0
  script:
    - PREPROD_TAGS="abc,def"
    - THIS_GITLAB=$(echo $CI_PROJECT_URL | sed 's/https\?:\/\///')
    - git remote add api-origin https://oauth2:${GITLAB_PRIVATE_TOKEN}@${THIS_GITLAB}
    - git checkout ${CI_DEFAULT_BRANCH}
    - git config user.email "${GITLAB_USER_EMAIL}"
    - git config user.name "${GITLAB_USER_NAME}"
    - IFS=', ' read -r -a array <<< $PREPROD_TAGS
    - for THIS_TAG in "${array[@]}"; do
    -   git tag -l "$THIS_TAG"
    -   if [ $(git tag -l "$THIS_TAG") ]; then
    -     echo "tag $THIS_TAG already exists. Deleting and pushing changes ..."
    -     git push --delete api-origin "$THIS_TAG" -o ci.skip
    -   fi
    -   echo "tag $THIS_TAG does not exists. Creating and pushing changes ..."
    -   git tag -a $THIS_TAG -m "Test message for $THIS_TAG"
    -   git push api-origin $THIS_TAG
    - done

First run : no pre-existing tags, tags abc and def are created. All seems OK.
Second run : tags are found, the messy stuff begins :

$ if [ $(git tag -l “$THIS_TAG”) ]; then
$ echo “tag $THIS_TAG already exists. Deleting and pushing changes …”

tag def already exists. Deleting and pushing changes …

$ git push --delete api-origin “$THIS_TAG” -o ci.skip
- [deleted] def
$ fi
$ echo “tag $THIS_TAG does not exists. Creating and pushing changes …”

tag def does not exists. Creating and pushing changes …

$ git tag -a $THIS_TAG -m “Test message for $THIS_TAG”
fatal: tag ‘def’ already exists

Any idea about what is wrong here ?

Thanks !

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Hi,
tags in remote vs local tags.
In the if you only delete tag in remote api-origin. You also need to delete local tag git tag -d $THIS_TAG.