Cant delete a realease without deleting a tag

[couling]

There is a strong connection between tags and releases in Gitea. When you create a release gitea also creates a tag if the tag name doesn't already exist. When you delete a release it also deletes the tag.

This has two main flaws:

• It's easy to create a tag when you intended to reuse one (or visa versa).
• It's impossible to delete a release without deleting the tag.

Suggested enhancements to resolve this:

• Option to not delete a tag while deleting release
• Indication on create release screen to show when an existing tag is being used
• Link from releases screen to change a regular tag into a release

[bkcsoft]

@tboerger more of a feature/enhancement right?

[couling]

I'd say 90% Feature, 10% Bug.

The bug element is that, it seems wrong to be left with no tag after the following:

1. Add tag in git
2. Create release in Gitea
3. Delete Gitea

That is to say that creating and deleting a release shouldn't delete a pre-existing tag. I'm sure there are some who would argue "working as designed" though.

[tboerger]

@bkcsoft bug and feature at the same time, at least in my opinion.

[tboerger]

A release is bound to a tag, but a tag can also totally fine exist without a release

[lunny]

So we can simply don't delete the tag when deleting a release! Tags could be delete via git or Gitea API, so that we could not provide ui to delete it currently.