Show git tags sorted by date

Question

How to list git tags in chronological order? (recent tags first)

git tag only displays alphabetical order.

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

git tag --sort version:refname

Answer 3

Simple to remember:

git log --tags --decorate --simplify-by-decoration

Easier to read result:

git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --pretty="format:%d - %cr"

Answer 4

Supported types when it comes to sorting with git tag are:

• refname - sorts in a lexicographic order
• version:refname or v:refname - this sorts based on versions

The solution to your problem would look like: git tag -l --sort version:refname

There are many more useful commands related to git tagging, be sure to check this article out for more details.

Answer 5

There is a nice one-liner I found that will shows date tag message, tag author and does a good job with column arrangements.

git for-each-ref --sort=taggerdate --format '%(tag)_,,,_%(taggerdate:raw)_,,,_%(taggername)_,,,_%(subject)' refs/tags \
 | awk 'BEGIN { FS = "_,,,_"  } ; { t=strftime("%Y-%m-%d  %H:%M",$2); printf "%-20s %-18s %-25s %s\n", t, $1, $4, $3  }'

Output will look like this:

...
2015-08-03  10:56     v1.51              Release v1.51             FirstName LastName
2015-08-10  16:12     v1.52              Release v1.52             Jane Doe

Credit to this site

Answer 6

Try this

 git log --tags --decorate --simplify-by-decoration | grep ^commit|grep tag|sed -e 's/^.*: //' -e 's/)$//'