Re: with git 1.8.3.1 get only merged tags

From: Michal Novotny <clime@redhat.com>
Date: Sep 13, 2018, 08:36 UTC
Message-ID: <CANT8FXSu9rqbw5D05LfcrD1GpenFGdB6TAcaHJGFJiouzctxJQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180911190519.GA8396@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 9:05 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 12:43:15PM +0200, Michal Novotny wrote:
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> > I need to emulate git tag --merged with very old git 1.8.3.1. Is that
> > somehow possible?
> > I am looking for a bash function that would take what git 1.8.3.1
> > offers and return only the tags accessible from the current branch
> > tip. Could you, please, give me at least a hint how this could be
> > done?
>
> This is not particularly fast, but it should work:
>
>   git for-each-ref refs/tags |
>   cut -f2 |
>   while read tag; do
>     test "$(git merge-base $tag HEAD)" = \
>          "$(git rev-parse $tag^{commit})" && echo $tag
>   done

That works for me. Thank you a lot for help!

clime

>
> -Peff