Tag conflict when force-pushing, despite having no tags or rulesets

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I have a repo I'm getting ready for release, and I want to have a completely clean "initial import" state, so I've been doing the occasional force-push to clean it up (I don't care about breaking things at this point). I have been testing release creation using tags, but I've got into a problematic state where it won't let me create a tag even though I have no tags and no rulesets:

git push --force origin :refs/tags/v0.0.1
remote: error: GH013: Repository rule violations found for refs/tags/v0.0.1.
remote: Review all repository rules at https://github.com/BadSMTP/BadSMTP/rules?ref=refs%2Ftags%2Fv0.0.1
remote: 
remote: - Cannot create ref due to creations being restricted.
remote: 
To github.com:BadSMTP/BadSMTP.git
 ! [remote rejected] v0.0.1 (push declined due to repository rule violations)
error: failed to push some refs to 'github.com:BadSMTP/BadSMTP.git'

I had previously created a v0.0.1 tag, but then deleted it, and the tag browser shows nothing at all. Neither the project nor the org have any rules sets defined.

How can I clean up this conflict?

[Tiimie1]

github might be caching the old tag rules even though you deleted everything. few things to try:

• check if you have any branch protection rules that might affect tags (sometimes they catch tags too)
  look at your repo settings under Settings > Rules > Rulesets and make sure nothing is hiding there
• check if your org has any rulesets that apply to all repos
• try deleting the tag locally first with git tag -d v0.0.1 then git push origin :refs/tags/v0.0.1
  if that doesnt work try creating a different tag name like v0.0.2 and see if it works

the error message says "creations being restricted" which makes me think theres a ruleset somewhere even if you cant see it. did you check both the repo level AND org level rules?

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Yes, I have already tried deleting the tag locally and pushing, there are no rulesets defined anywhere in either project or org (and never have been). Creating new tags and deleting them works fine. Is there a command to explicitly delete a remote tag, rather than doing it locally and pushing?

[Tiimie1]

yeah you can delete it directly on the remote with git push --delete origin v0.0.1

but honestly if new tags work fine and only v0.0.1 is stuck this sounds like a github backend issue where that specific tag reference got corrupted somehow. since youre doing a clean initial import anyway just skip v0.0.1 and start with v0.0.2 or something else.

if that is not feasible. I'd contact gh support

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Yes, I'm giving up, calling it v0.1.0 instead!