`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

Try this:

git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format '%(refname) %(taggerdate)' refs/tags

It works perfectly and very fast for me.

Refer to How can I list all tags in my Git repository by the date they were created?

Answer 2

For information, to get it in reverse order, prefix it with "-"

git tag --sort=-taggerdate

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

git tag | xargs -I@ git log --format=format:"%ai @%n" -1 @ | sort | awk '{print $4}'

Answer 5

As Alexander pointed out it should be

git tag --sort=taggerdate

for correct chronological order.

edit: * iff you're interested in the date the tags where pushed, if you're interested in the date of the commits, it should be "commiterdate"

Answer 6

In git 2.3.3 I can just do this to get them sorted by date:

git tag --sort version:refname

PS: For the record, I also answered the same thing on a duplicate question