Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 22.07.2015 21:20: > Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> The former, sort by "time", is interesting, but you need to define >> what to do with various corner cases. For example, some people may >> have one or more of the following desires: >> >> * My project did not use tags for a long time, and started using it >> recently starting from v1.1.0. The first release only said >> "Frotz version 1.0.0" in its commit log message. I retroactively >> did "git tag -s -m 'Frotz 1.1.0' v1.1.0" on that commit. > > Obviously, I meant "git tag -s -m 'Frotz 1.0.0' v1.0.0" here. > >> In such a case, it is likely that I would want the sorting done >> based on the committer date on the underlying commit, not the >> tag's tagger date. >> >> * When a bug is found, it is customary in my project to add a >> "break-<something>" tag to the commit that introduces the bug >> (and "fix-<something>" tag to the commit that fixes it). >> >> When I want to find recently discovered breakages, I want the >> tags whose names match "break-*" sorted by tagger dates, not the >> underlying commit's committer dates. > > Another use case may be one in which older tags are interesting. In > other words, you need to be able to sort in reverse, too. > >> The necessary ordering machinery to do the above already exists in >> "for-each-ref". There is a GSoC project that works to unify various >> features spread across "for-each-ref", "branch -l" and "tag -l" and >> make them available to all of the three. > > And the above is still true even with reverse-order use case. > While not quite being intended for that purpose, git log --oneline --decorate --simplify-by-decoration [-n] --tags (or with a custom format instead of "--oneline --decorate") may come close to what you want.[*] Michael [*] As Linus once described it (iirc): oooh, evil. I like it. -- 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