Re: [git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag

2017-08-07 Thread Konstantin Khomoutov
On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 09:14:15AM -0700, Michael wrote: > > # get most recent annotated tag (by time-of-tagging) > > $ git for-each-ref --sort='-*committerdate' refs/tags | head --lines=1 > > > > # get most recent lightweight tag (by time-of-commit) > > $ git for-each-ref

[git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag

2017-08-06 Thread Kévin Le Gouguec
Thanks folks, that makes for some interesting feedback. On the best way to accomplish the task at hand: thank you for the examples, Sylvie! While skimming git-tag(1)'s manpage, I also found this gem: --sort= Sort in a specific order. Supported type is "refname" (lexicographic

Re: [git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag

2017-08-06 Thread Igor Djordjevic
On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 6:14:24 PM UTC+2, Michael Gersten wrote: > > > On 2017-08-05, at 9:26 PM, G. Sylvie Davies > wrote: > > > # get most recent annotated tag (by time-of-tagging) > $ git for-each-ref --sort='-*committerdate' refs/tags | head --lines=1 > > # get

Re: [git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag

2017-08-06 Thread G. Sylvie Davies
On Sunday, August 6, 2017 at 9:14:24 AM UTC-7, Michael Gersten wrote: > > > On 2017-08-05, at 9:26 PM, G. Sylvie Davies > wrote: > > > # get most recent annotated tag (by time-of-tagging) > $ git for-each-ref --sort='-*committerdate' refs/tags | head --lines=1 > > #

Re: [git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag

2017-08-06 Thread Michael
On 2017-08-05, at 9:26 PM, G. Sylvie Davies wrote: > > # get most recent annotated tag (by time-of-tagging) > $ git for-each-ref --sort='-*committerdate' refs/tags | head --lines=1 > > # get most recent lightweight tag (by time-of-commit) > $ git for-each-ref

Re: [git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag

2017-08-06 Thread Philip Oakley
AM Subject: [git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag On Saturday, August 5, 2017 at 2:04:07 PM UTC-7, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote: Hi, Not sure this is a bug; I might just misunderstand git-describe's algorithm. I am on Debian Jessie with git ver

[git-users] Re: git describe's way of choosing the "most recent" tag

2017-08-05 Thread G. Sylvie Davies
On Saturday, August 5, 2017 at 2:04:07 PM UTC-7, Kévin Le Gouguec wrote: > > Hi, > > Not sure this is a bug; I might just misunderstand git-describe's > algorithm. I am on Debian Jessie with git version 2.1.4; I also get > the same behavior on next (98096fd7a85b93626db8757f944f2d8ffdf7e96a). > >