Git Publisher Post-Build step fails to push tags.

As outlined here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/35995736/jenkins-git-publisher-unable-to-push-tags/36575057, downgrading to earlier versions of these plugins makes this work:

• Git plugin : 2.4.0 works, 2.5.3 does not work
• Git client plugin: 1.18.0 works, 1.19.7 does not work
  (probably versions in between do not work either. I did not test any other combinations)

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a job that clones a github repo, use credentials with a key for a user that has push privileges in github. Additional behaviors: checkout to local branch "master", Wipe and force clone.
2. Add a Git Publisher step, add tag with arbitrary name, check create and update checkboxes
3. No other job configuration items are necessary

With versions labeled "does not work" above, job fails with the following error:

*Wiping out workspace first.
Cloning the remote Git repository
remote: Counting objects
Receiving objects
Resolving deltas
Updating references
Checking out Revision be5c9260a46cefcd37a5ef23ed04d112dc4e4c47 (refs/remotes/origin/master)
Pushing tag test-tag to repo origin
RefSpec is "refs/tags/test-tag:refs/heads/test-tag".
Opening connection
Counting objects
Finding sources
Writing objects
ERROR: Failed to push tag test-tag to origin
hudson.plugins.git.GitException: failed REJECTED_OTHER_REASON for 'refs/tags/test-tag:refs/heads/test-tag' refspec 'test-tag' to git@github.com:bla.bla.bla.git
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.JGitAPIImpl$9.execute(JGitAPIImpl.java:1870)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:152)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler$1.call(RemoteGitImpl.java:145)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:121)
at hudson.remoting.UserRequest.perform(UserRequest.java:49)
at hudson.remoting.Request$2.run(Request.java:324)
at hudson.remoting.InterceptingExecutorService$1.call(InterceptingExecutorService.java:68)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at hudson.remoting.Engine$1$1.run(Engine.java:63)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
at ......remote call to tc-docker-swarm-01-5209d3c4(Native Method)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.attachCallSiteStackTrace(Channel.java:1416)
at hudson.remoting.UserResponse.retrieve(UserRequest.java:253)
at hudson.remoting.Channel.call(Channel.java:781)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.execute(RemoteGitImpl.java:145)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.jenkinsci.plugins.gitclient.RemoteGitImpl$CommandInvocationHandler.invoke(RemoteGitImpl.java:131)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy66.execute(Unknown Source)
at hudson.plugins.git.GitPublisher.perform(GitPublisher.java:295)
at hudson.tasks.BuildStepMonitor$3.perform(BuildStepMonitor.java:45)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.perform(AbstractBuild.java:779)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.performAllBuildSteps(AbstractBuild.java:720)
at hudson.model.Build$BuildExecution.post2(Build.java:185)
at hudson.model.AbstractBuild$AbstractBuildExecution.post(AbstractBuild.java:665)
at hudson.model.Run.execute(Run.java:1745)
at hudson.model.FreeStyleBuild.run(FreeStyleBuild.java:43)
at hudson.model.ResourceController.execute(ResourceController.java:98)
at hudson.model.Executor.run(Executor.java:404)
Build step 'Git Publisher' marked build as failure*

With the older versions specified, tag is pushed successfully.