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On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 04:22:04AM -0600, Jesse Hopkins wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2015 1:54 AM, "John Keeping" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > When I checkout a tag, "git reflog -1" gives something like:
> >
> > 989d251 HEAD@{0}: checkout: moving from master to v0.9.2
> >
> > Since whitespace isn't permitted in tag names you can do something like:
> >
> > tag=$(git reflog -1)
> > tag=${tag##* }
> > git cat-file tag "$tag" >/dev/null 2>&1 || echo "not a tag!"
>
> Thanks John that seems promising. One limitation it seems is that the
> reflog doesn't contain the tag name on a freshly cloned repo which used the
> tag as the -b option. However it seems I can recover the tag name from
> the reflog so long as I clone against something other than the tag, then
> checkout the tag.
I think it would be a reasonable enhancement to include the branch name
in the reflog message if "-b" is given to "git clone", but I'm not aware
of any (formal) policy on the format of reflog messages so relying on
any particular message may not be 100% reliable across Git upgrades.
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