`git tag` sorted in chronological order of the date of the commit pointed to

Question

The output from git tag is ordered alphabetically. I would like it to be ordered chronological (the date of the commits they are assigned to, not the date on wh

Answer 1

Just tested with git 2.8.0:

git tag --sort=committerdate

For a full list of field names you can use, see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-for-each-ref#_field_names

For commit and tag objects, the special creatordate and creator fields will correspond to the appropriate date or name-email-date tuple from the committer or tagger fields depending on the object type. These are intended for working on a mix of annotated and lightweight tags.

Fields that have name-email-date tuple as its value (author, committer, and tagger) can be suffixed with name, email, and date to extract the named component.