How do I stop Stash from respawning deleted tags?

[Wesley George]

I have a repository in stash that has many tags I don't like. I can delete a tags with

git push stash :that_tag_I_dont_like

but the tag respawns at a later point that seems indeterminate to me. I suspect Stash is allowing or encouraging this tag respawning. How do I make the tags stay deleted?

I don't know a ton about git repository layout, but I can say post push, 'that_tag_I_dont_like' still appears in the associated .git/info/refs file. I don't want to monkey around with the on disk repository behind Stash's back, but I feel like a `git update-server-info` might be needed here.

We're running stash v2.10.1

[Wesley George · Accepted solution]

The answer seems Stash is not to blame.

SourceTree's default push setting (in use by some team members) is to push all tags by default. That was unexpected.

[Wesley George]

The repository with the stubborn tags did have a fork which was set to synchronize with the origin. This seems a plausible vector for the tag respawn. I have forcibly reset the fork and am waiting to see.