Is the repo mirroring restoring dead tags?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Andreas, I just did a pull of the git mirror and all the tags I had
deleted and renamed came back to life.

The deletion script I use is this:

git tag -d $1
git push origin :$1

so I'm not just deleting them locally. Could your mirroring script 
be having an unexpected side effect?
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