On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Yep, that's pretty much how a build system I've had to use does it. >> Sadly, this is quite slow, and I'm not sure if doing it built into the >> tag via for-each-ref would be faster? > > Is the description in "git for-each-ref --help" somehow unreadable? > > An example directly producing formatted text. Show the most > recent 3 tagged commits: > > #!/bin/sh > > git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \ > --format='From: %(*authorname) %(*authoremail) > Subject: %(*subject) > Date: %(*authordate) > Ref: %(*refname) > > %(*body) > ' 'refs/tags' > > If you only need the name of the ref, you can use a lot simpler > format string, e.g. > > git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \ > --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags > > git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-taggerdate' \ > --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags > That's significantly better than what this system does, but sadly the team that owns it doesn't exactly understand git. Pretty sure they tend to just use whatever scriptlet they got working, which happens to be based on log... I've tried to help them, but generally hasn't been a successful relationship there. Regards, Jake -- 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