Remove confusing old git tags in the repository

[Skunnyk]

Hi,

In the git repository (https://github.com/scylladb/gocql/tags), there are old git tags with higher digit number than current release !
Some dependency tools (like renovate bot) are confused and get release 1.10.0 for example.
Last scylladb/gocql official release is 1.7.3, but we have tags numbered 1.8.0 or 1.10.0 from 2021! This is confusing.

Is it possible to remove theses old tags or do something ? :)

Thank you !

[martin-sucha]

Beware that removing tags will not remove the tags from git clones nor cached packages from module proxies. It might be safer to just release a new version that has higher version than all previous tags. And mark the unwanted versions as retracted in the Go module.

[Skunnyk]

Yes, deleting old tags can be a problem. So next version slot is 1.11.0 then… :)

[carlosms]

Until this is fixed, please consider updating the instructions in the readme:

gocql/README.md

Lines 23 to 35 in e38b2bc

	Add the following line to your project `go.mod` file.
	```
	replace github.com/gocql/gocql => github.com/scylladb/gocql latest
	```
	and run
	```
	go mod tidy
	```
	to evaluate `latest` to a concrete tag.

This will put v1.10.0 in the go.mod file.

In my opinion it might be simpler for everyone to release a higher version number right now, even if it's the exact same commit as 1.7.3.

[avelanarius]

I decided on the approach of removing old tags and all unrelated tags are now deleted from this repo.