git tag --no-merged?

Hi!

Using "git branch --no-merged" I can get a list of branches that I have that I haven't merged into my current branch. "git tag" doesn't have such an option, is there a way to achieve something similar listing tags that point to commits that aren't in my history?

Background: In my $DAYJOB we have a couple of products that are built 
from a common source tree. Each of the products have their own 
maintenance branches, and releases from these maintenance branches are 
tagged. I want to merge the changes from the maintenance branches to 
master (and possibly to other maintenance branches if there are 
changes relevant to other products), but I only want to do this for 
our tagged released.

Using "git branch --no-merged" I can see which of the maintenance branches have commits that haven't been merged yet, but I cannot tell whether any of those have been tagged.

Peter Krefting <peter@softwolves.pp.se> writes:

Using canned set of tools, I do not think there is anything less complex than doing something like:

 $ git log --oneline --decorate --branches --not --tags

The longer term goal that has been floated a few times here is to unify various logic that computes containment relationships in "branch", "tags", etc. to one place and perhaps expose that unified logic to "for-each-ref", but that hasn't happened yet.

Am 04.02.2015 um 16:19 schrieb Peter Krefting:

Assuming v2.0.0 is a tag, using "git branch --no-merged v2.0.0" you can see which branches haven't been merged into v2.0.0.

-- Hannes

Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org> writes:

I think the request is a bit more involved than "Which one is not yet in v2.0.0?"

The question, as I now understand it after reading it again, 

    I want to merge the changes from the maintenance branches to
    master (and possibly to other maintenance branches if there are
    changes relevant to other products), but I only want to do this for
    our tagged released.

is "which branches, whose tips are already tagged, are not yet in 'master'?"

The one I gave is not what was asked, either, as I misread the question. It was an answer to "which commits are not yet in any tagged version, show them together with the names of branches from which they are reached".

On Feb 4, 2015, at 07:19, Peter Krefting wrote:

I think something like this might do what you want:

git for-each-ref --format='%(refname)' refs/tags | \
while read t; do
   if ! git merge-base --is-ancestor $t HEAD; then
     echo ${t#refs/tags/}
   fi
done

If you run that on the Git repository (assuming you've checked out master), after a while (there are a lot of tags to check) it spits out v1.4.4.5 (along with some complaints about *-gpg-pub tags that refer to blobs).

And sure enough, `git log v1.4.4.5 ^master` shows 5 commits not contained in master so I think it does what you want. You'll want to restrict the for-each-ref output further, if possible, to make it quicker.

-Kyle

Kyle J. McKay:

That works like a charm, thank you!