Re: Git tag output order is incorrect (IMHO)

From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 11, 2013, 13:42 UTC
Message-ID: <CABURp0o5tOswiv_avfAQOZwGREpX3v7MwcdVzt7dkubY2Y0O6g@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAMP44s3p_DRTvBhKbM0ejKgea9hauSCzahPux4jCWL7JP4nxKw@mail.gmail.com>

Someone at $work asked me this week how to find the current and previous tags on his branch so he could generate release notes. I just need "last two tags on head in topo-order". I was surprised by how complicated this turned out to be. I ended up with this:

  git log --decorate=full --pretty=format:'%d' HEAD |
    sed -n -e 's-^.* refs/tags/\(.*\)[ )].*$-\1-p' |
    head -2

Surely there's a cleaner way, right?

Phil

On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rahul Bansal <rahul.bansal@rtcamp.com> wrote:
>> I am posting here first time, so please excuse me if this is not right place to send something like this.
>>
>> Please check - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6091306/can-i-make-git-print-x-y-z-style-tag-names-in-a-sensible-order
>>
>> And also - https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/4565
>>
>> IMHO "git tag" is expected to show tag-list ordered by versions.
>>
>> It may be case, that people do not follow same version numbering convention. Most people after x.9.x increment major version (that is why they may not be affected because of this)
>>
>> Another option like "git tag --date-asc" can be added which will print tags by creation date. (As long as people do not create backdated tag, this will work).
>
> I completely agree, and there was a proposal to an option like this a
> long time ago:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111032
>
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