From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:04:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] sort tags by date (git tag -l -D)
Message-ID: <200902231004.25784.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <e29894ca0902221006s1c1af9f9o8c13ff9e06670d95@mail.gmail.com>

Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> I needed to sort my tags by date, and not only the annotated tags.

As others have pointed out, there's no sane way to sort 

> I was surprised that git tag didn't know how to do that. May be it
> could be handled simply by some shell script. Please tell me :)

Modulo timezone differences

  git for-each-ref --format="%(taggerdate:raw)%(committerdate:raw) %(refname:short)" refs/tags | sort -n | cut -d\  -f3

For some neat reason only one of the dates is displayed, depending on
the type of object.

(Interestingly, the v0.99 tag in git.git doesn't have a date or
tagger...)

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch