Re: git tag truncates tag list

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 5, 2021, 06:47 UTC
Message-ID: <X/QLds2oVvOAF1nb@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <MQFZ9EW--3-2@tuta.io>

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 04:39:20AM +0100, stratus@tuta.io wrote:

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> git tag misses out some tags from this repo here, there seem to be too many to show:
> 
> https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
> 
> It cuts the list short, losing either the latest ones with simply 
> git tag
>  or the earliest using either 
> git tag  --sort=-creatordate
>   or 
> git tag --sort=-taggerdate
> 
>  Is there some config option somewhere to show the full list?

I see 680 tags with all of those commands, which matches the number of tags reported by:

  git ls-remote --tags --refs \
    https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux

Perhaps a silly question, but which tags do you think are missing? Are you confused that 5.10 and 5.11 do not show up at the end? If so, it's because they sort byte-wise between 5.1 and 5.2. So they're there, just not at the end, with "git tag". When sorting by creatordate or taggerdate, they appear at the beginning (because you chose a descending sort).

-Peff