# [PATCH/RFC 0/6] sort tags by date (git tag -l -D) 3 messages from 2009-02-22 to 2009-02-23. Participants: Marc-André Lureau, Thomas Rast. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/17951 ## Marc-André Lureau, 2009-02-22 18:06 Subject: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] sort tags by date (git tag -l -D) Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/e29894ca0902221006s1c1af9f9o8c13ff9e06670d95%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi, I needed to sort my tags by date, and not only the annotated tags. I was surprised that git tag didn't know how to do that. May be it could be handled simply by some shell script. Please tell me :) Take this patch series easy, it's only a RFC. I had some fun hacking the code, that's the most important for me. I would be happy to take comment. Something I wish I could do is also have a better pretty_print_tag() to have customized format (or may be it should be in git log instead?) I tried different approach to deal with light tags, and none was really good. In the end, I decided to use the "object" base type, and have a private light_tag type. There might be different solutions to that. I am happy to discuss them. regards, Marc-Andre Lureau (6): tag: read signature tag: parse the date tag: copy parsed buffer unconditionnaly object: add one bit to let creation of private types (OBJ_MAX + n) builtin-tag: add sort by date -D test: add simple sorted tag test builtin-tag.c | 162 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- object.h | 2 +- t/t7004-tag.sh | 53 ++++++++++++++++++ tag.c | 17 +++++- tag.h | 5 ++- 5 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) ``` ## Thomas Rast, 2009-02-23 09:04 Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] sort tags by date (git tag -l -D) Message-ID: <200902231004.25784.trast@student.ethz.ch> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200902231004.25784.trast%40student.ethz.ch In-Reply-To: ``` Marc-André Lureau wrote: > I needed to sort my tags by date, and not only the annotated tags. As others have pointed out, there's no sane way to sort > I was surprised that git tag didn't know how to do that. May be it > could be handled simply by some shell script. Please tell me :) Modulo timezone differences git for-each-ref --format="%(taggerdate:raw)%(committerdate:raw) %(refname:short)" refs/tags | sort -n | cut -d\ -f3 For some neat reason only one of the dates is displayed, depending on the type of object. (Interestingly, the v0.99 tag in git.git doesn't have a date or tagger...) -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch ``` ## Thomas Rast, 2009-02-23 09:11 Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/6] sort tags by date (git tag -l -D) Message-ID: <200902231011.54574.trast@student.ethz.ch> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200902231011.54574.trast%40student.ethz.ch In-Reply-To: <200902231004.25784.trast@student.ethz.ch> ``` Thomas Rast wrote: > Marc-André Lureau wrote: > > I needed to sort my tags by date, and not only the annotated tags. > > As others have pointed out, there's no sane way to sort ... lightweight tags of blobs or trees. *sigh* Also, do not take my shell command to mean that I don't like this series. It would be nice to have a porcelain feature for it. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch ```