Re: Feature Request: Passing a number as an option to git tags for displaying latest tags

> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Yep, that's pretty much how a build system I've had to use does it.
>> Sadly, this is quite slow, and I'm not sure if doing it built into the
>> tag via for-each-ref would be faster?
>
> Is the description in "git for-each-ref --help" somehow unreadable?
>
>        An example directly producing formatted text. Show the most
>        recent 3 tagged commits:
>
>            #!/bin/sh
>
>            git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \
>            --format='From: %(*authorname) %(*authoremail)
>            Subject: %(*subject)
>            Date: %(*authordate)
>            Ref: %(*refname)
>
>            %(*body)
>            ' 'refs/tags'
>
> If you only need the name of the ref, you can use a lot simpler
> format string, e.g.
>
>     git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \
>       --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags
>
>     git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-taggerdate' \
>       --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags
>