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Re: Feature request: git-log should optionally include tags

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RLRoger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>
Date
Oct 26, 2008, 12:52 UTC
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<20081026125257.GA13933@codelibre.net>
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 01:47:44PM +0100, Mikael Magnusson wrote:
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> 2008/10/26 Roger Leigh <rleigh@whinlatter.ukfsn.org>:
> > 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.
> 
> git log --decorate
Many thanks!
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