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From: Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Feature Request: Passing a number as an option to git tags for
 displaying latest tags
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:21:39 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:39 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>
> While not quite being intended for that purpose,
>
> git log --oneline --decorate --simplify-by-decoration [-n] --tags
>
> (or with a custom format instead of "--oneline --decorate") may come
> close to what you want.[*]
>
> Michael
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> [*] As Linus once described it (iirc): oooh, evil. I like it.
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Yep, that's pretty much how a build system I've had to use does it.
Sadly, this is quite slow, and I'm not sure if doing it built into the
tag via for-each-ref would be faster? I mean obviously having to look
at each commit is slower than just the tag name, but it might be
faster than parsing through the log process? Though the log output has
the advantage that it only shows you tags "on" a given branch.

Regards,
Jake