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git tag listing order

Subject: git tag listing order

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Peter van der Does· Nov 24, 2009, 15:56 UTC · lore

I'm using git 1.6.5.3 on Ubuntu and was wondering if there is a way to list tags in order of when they were added to the tree, instead of alphabetical?

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Jeff King· Nov 24, 2009, 19:00 UTC · re: Peter van der Does · lore

Re: git tag listing order

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Peter van der Does wrote:

> I'm using git 1.6.5.3 on Ubuntu and was wondering if there is a way to
> list tags in order of when they were added to the tree, instead of
> alphabetical?

You can use for-each-ref with its sort option:

  git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags

Though note that unannotated tags will have no taggerdate, and will all sort to the front of the list. To exclude them, I think you'd have to use a special format to grep and sort yourself. Something like:

  git for-each-ref \
    --format='%(taggerdate:iso8601) %(refname:short)' refs/tags |
    grep -v '^ ' |
    sort |
    cut -d' ' -f4-

-Peff

Peter van der Does· Nov 24, 2009, 19:24 UTC · re: Jeff King · lore

Re: git tag listing order

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:00:23 -0500 Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 10:56:09AM -0500, Peter van der Does wrote:
> 
> > I'm using git 1.6.5.3 on Ubuntu and was wondering if there is a way
> > to list tags in order of when they were added to the tree, instead
> > of alphabetical?
> 
> You can use for-each-ref with its sort option:
> 
>   git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format='%(refname:short)'
> refs/tags
> 
> Though note that unannotated tags will have no taggerdate, and will
> all sort to the front of the list. To exclude them, I think you'd
> have to use a special format to grep and sort yourself. Something
> like:
> 
>   git for-each-ref \
>     --format='%(taggerdate:iso8601) %(refname:short)' refs/tags |
>     grep -v '^ ' |
>     sort |
>     cut -d' ' -f4-
> 
> -Peff
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Thanks for the info, just what I was looking for.

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