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Re: More formatting with 'git tag -l'

From
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>
Date
Aug 29, 2011, 21:20 UTC
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<20110829232011.565ea553@pomiocik.lan>
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<20110829193658.GG756@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:36:58 -0400 Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:10:18PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > Would it be feasible to add more formatting options to 'git tag -l'.
> > Right now, it's just '-n' but if more formatting options were added,
> > I think I could use annotated tags as a nice source for
> > autogenerated 'NEWS' file.
> > 
> > What I am most concerned about is the date of last commit contained
> > in the tag. Having an option to format each printed tag and use that
> > information along with tag details in a format string (like the one
> > used by 'git log') would be great.
> 
> You can do something similar with 'git for-each-ref', which is
> probably what you should be using if you are scripting, anyway (as it
> is "plumbing" and guaranteed not to change in future releases).
> Something like:

Thanks, that looks great. The only thing I am missing right now is a simple %(body) variant which would strip the GPG signature. I'd really like to avoid establishing a shell oneliner to do that.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny
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Message 3 of 32 in “More formatting with 'git tag -l'”
  1. Michał GórnyAug 29, 2011
  2. Jeff KingAug 29, 2011
  3. Michał GórnyAug 29, 2011
  4. Jeff KingAug 29, 2011
  5. Michał GórnyAug 29, 2011
  6. git-for-each-ref: move GPG sigs off %(body) to %(signature).Michał Górny, Aug 30, 2011
  7. Michael J GruberAug 30, 2011
  8. Michał GórnyAug 30, 2011
  9. Jeff KingAug 30, 2011
  10. for-each-ref: add split message parts to %(contents:*).Michał Górny, Aug 31, 2011
  11. Jeff KingAug 31, 2011
  12. 1/2 t7004: factor out gpg setupJeff King, Aug 31, 2011
  13. 2/2 t6300: test new content:* for-each-ref placeholdersJeff King, Aug 31, 2011
  14. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2011
  15. Jeff KingAug 31, 2011
  16. Michał GórnySep 1, 2011
  17. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2011
  18. Jeff KingSep 1, 2011
  19. Michał GórnySep 1, 2011
  20. for-each-ref: add split message parts to %(contents:*).Michał Górny, Sep 1, 2011
  21. Jeff KingSep 2, 2011
  22. Michał GórnySep 2, 2011
  23. Jeff KingSep 2, 2011
  24. Jeff KingSep 7, 2011
  25. Michał GórnySep 15, 2011
  26. 1/5 t7004: factor out gpg setupJeff King, Sep 7, 2011
  27. 2/5 t6300: add more body-parsing testsJeff King, Sep 7, 2011
  28. 3/5 for-each-ref: refactor subject and body placeholder parsingJeff King, Sep 7, 2011
  29. 4/5 for-each-ref: handle multiline subjects like --prettyJeff King, Sep 7, 2011
  30. 5/5 for-each-ref: add split message parts to %(contents:*).Jeff King, Sep 7, 2011
  31. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2011
  32. Jeff KingSep 1, 2011

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