Feature request: git-log should optionally include tags

From: Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>
Date: Oct 26, 2008, 12:13 UTC
Message-ID: <20081026121326.GA3399@codelibre.net>

A feature I would very much like to have in git is to have tag information included in the log generated by git-log. This would make it easy to see where the tags are in the history. The use case for us would be to have release tags displayed so that it's possible to identify which revisions constitute release points, which is useful for e.g. users to identify points for bisection.

I can do it now using sed to substitute in the contents of .git/refs/tags/*, but having the functionality in git-log directly would be most useful.

Regards, Roger Leigh

Example of existing log:

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commit 62dca2fc0e5e356ecb24ea0d8bd9f04980ab4cbe
Author: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 00:31:03 2008 +0100

    [Sbuild::Build] Add and use log_info, _warning and _error functions
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Example of log including tags:

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commit 62dca2fc0e5e356ecb24ea0d8bd9f04980ab4cbe
Author: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 13 00:31:03 2008 +0100
Tags: sbuild-0.60.1

    [Sbuild::Build] Add and use log_info, _warning and _error functions
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Regards, Roger

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