Re: git tag listing order

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Nov 24, 2009, 19:00 UTC
Message-ID: <20091124185947.GA24409@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091124105609.0980e796@montecarlo.grandprix.int>

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Peter van der Does wrote:

> I'm using git 1.6.5.3 on Ubuntu and was wondering if there is a way to
> list tags in order of when they were added to the tree, instead of
> alphabetical?

You can use for-each-ref with its sort option:

  git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags

Though note that unannotated tags will have no taggerdate, and will all sort to the front of the list. To exclude them, I think you'd have to use a special format to grep and sort yourself. Something like:

  git for-each-ref \
    --format='%(taggerdate:iso8601) %(refname:short)' refs/tags |
    grep -v '^ ' |
    sort |
    cut -d' ' -f4-

-Peff