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 <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Rahul Bansal <rahul.bansal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 > > -- > Felipe Contreras > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html