git-tag

I want to curl a git tag through the command line: curl -O http://someurl But when I try to untar the file it is broken? Do anyone know what is the problem? VonC You can curl a git tag from a git repos hosting service like GitHub, because it has a dedicated tarball service (like Nodeload ) which provides tar (or zip). But not any other git repo out there has that same service. See " Having trouble downloading Git archive tarballs from Private Repo " for a concrete example with GitHub (or this curl GitHub tutorial ): curl -sL --user "${username}:${password}" https://github.com/$account/$repo

How to list git tags in chronological order ? (recent tags first) git tag only displays alphabetical order. The correct answer is: git tag --sort=-taggerdate taggerdate is the appropriate field. According to the git tag man page : Prefix - to sort in descending order of the value. git tag uses the same sorting keys as git-for-each-ref , which is where the sorting keys are documented. opsidao In git 2.3.3 I can just do this to get them sorted by date: git tag --sort version:refname Simple to remember: git log --tags --decorate --simplify-by-decoration Easier to read result: git log --tags -

I have tagged my repository with the tag "Release_V1.0.0.4". But here is what I got from "git describe" and "git describe origin". [root pds_series]# git describe Release_V1.0.0.2-22-g0859de9 [root pds_series]# git describe origin Release_V1.0.0.2-18-gce2b24c With "git describe --all" and "git describe --tags" I got the right tag. [root pds_series]# git describe --all tags/Release_v1.0.0.4 [root pds_series]# git describe --tags Release_v1.0.0.4 Also, with following command I got the right tag. [root pds_series]# git log --pretty=format:'%ad %h %d' --abbrev-commit --date=short -1 2012-11-15

I need to write an autoupdate script for our project. I have everything, except that I can't determine the name of the latest received tag. I tried with git describe, but it tells me the latest checked out tag. I don't need that of course, I have to get the next reachable tag to checkout. Any idea? Try this: git describe --tags --abbrev=0 branch_name to retrieve the name of the latest tag searching back from the tip of the desired branch, rather than HEAD (the current checkout). That is, if your auto-update script has fetched origin master , you can do git describe --tags --abbrev=0 origin

I have a git commit with 2 tags, like this: commit1-----tagA,tagB Checkout "tagA" by git checkout tagA Question: How to get the tag name of current checkout? I have try git describe , but it's always return name "tagB", expect return "tagA". Seems git describe only be able to return the most recent tag name, see from git manual The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown. Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object and the abbreviated object name of

Lets assume you have the following structure in git A <-- refs/heads/somebranch | B | \ C D <-- refs/tags/TAG1 | | E F | | \ G H I <-- refs/heads/branch1 | J <-- refs/heads/master Now I want to find all refs that contain commit B in their history. So it would be nice if I could do $ git refs --contains B refs/tags/TAG1 refs/heads/branch1 refs/heads/master I took a look at the git decumentation and found git branch -a --contains <commit_id> which lists all branches that contain a commit_id . $ git branch -a --contains 4af9822 master remotes/origin/someBranch ... and I found the command git tag