How to get the latest tag name in current branch in Git?

Question

What\'s the simplest way to get the most recent tag in Git?

git tag a HEAD
git tag b HEAD^^
git tag c HEAD^
git tag

output:

Answer 1

For the question as asked,

How to get the latest tag name in the current branch

you want

git log --first-parent --pretty=%d | grep -m1 tag:

--first-parent tells git log not to detail any merged histories, --pretty=%d says to show only the decorations i.e. local names for any commits. grep -m1 says "match just one", so you get just the most-recent tag.