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# The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. | |
# If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown. | |
# Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object | |
# and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit. | |
git describe | |
# With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the closest tagname without any suffix: | |
git describe --abbrev=0 | |
# other examples | |
git describe --abbrev=0 --tags # gets tag from current branch | |
git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1` # gets tags across all branches, not just the current branch | |
@eggbean I like that idea, but it hits an auth wall for private/enterprise repos
@arderyp There are a few different ways to authenticate. Have you tried the gh
cli tool?
Thanks! :)
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Just deleted a stupid long ass comment. Just want to warn about
git tag --sort=committerdate
it does not work correctly with the tag command for whatever reason. But this does work.git for-each-ref --sort=creatordate --format '%(refname) %(creatordate)' refs/tags
COMPLETELY different result that makes no sense to me
git tag --sort=committerdate
However
git tag --sort=taggerdate
is basically what I always looked for, what should be the default output forgit-tag
IMG. I also hate how it paginates the output withless
or whatever by default.Again, be warned about
committerdate
! There is somebody above that had issue as well I think because of this. Even if my commit of things I tagged days or maybe even a week later. I makes absolutely no sense to me WTF this produces. Maybe my memory is just bad and it all makes sense, well probably actually. I think to much about this shit.