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Re: Unify annotated and non-annotated tags

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Nov 11, 2017, 02:06 UTC
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Igor Djordjevic <igor.d.djordjevic@gmail.com> writes:
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> If you would like to mimic output of "git show-ref", repeating 
> commits for each tag pointing to it and showing full tag name as 
> well, you could do something like this, for example:
>
> 	for tag in $(git for-each-ref --format="%(refname)" refs/tags)
> 	do
> 		printf '%s %s\n' "$(git rev-parse $tag^0)" "$tag"
> 	done
>
>
> Hope that helps a bit.

If you use for-each-ref's --format option, you could do something like (pardon a long line):

git for-each-ref --format='%(if)%(*objectname)%(then)%(*objectname)%(else)%(objectname)%(end) %(refname)' refs/tags
without any loop, I would think.
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