Why has git-filter-branch not rewritten tags?

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You need to specify

--tag-name-filter cat

to rewrite tags as well

Now, you could do

git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat …other filter options… -- --tags

where …other filter options… repeats the filters you previously applied.

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