Re: Git tag output order is incorrect (IMHO)

Someone at $work asked me this week how to find the current and
previous tags on his branch so he could generate release notes.  I
just need "last two tags on head in topo-order". I was surprised by
how complicated this turned out to be. I ended up with this:

  git log --decorate=full --pretty=format:'%d' HEAD |
    sed -n -e 's-^.* refs/tags/\(.*\)[ )].*$-\1-p' |
    head -2

Surely there's a cleaner way, right?

Phil



On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Felipe Contreras
[off-list ref] wrote:

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rahul Bansal [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I am posting here first time, so please excuse me if this is not right place to send something like this.

Please check - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6091306/can-i-make-git-print-x-y-z-style-tag-names-in-a-sensible-order

And also - https://github.com/gitlabhq/gitlabhq/issues/4565

IMHO "git tag" is expected to show tag-list ordered by versions.

It may be case, that people do not follow same version numbering convention. Most people after x.9.x increment major version (that is why they may not be affected because of this)

Another option like "git tag --date-asc" can be added which will print tags by creation date. (As long as people do not create backdated tag, this will work).

I completely agree, and there was a proposal to an option like this a
long time ago:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111032

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