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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 11:12:54 -0700
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On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Jacob Keller <jacob.keller@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> 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?
>
> Is the description in "git for-each-ref --help" somehow unreadable?
>
>        An example directly producing formatted text. Show the most
>        recent 3 tagged commits:
>
>            #!/bin/sh
>
>            git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \
>            --format='From: %(*authorname) %(*authoremail)
>            Subject: %(*subject)
>            Date: %(*authordate)
>            Ref: %(*refname)
>
>            %(*body)
>            ' 'refs/tags'
>
> If you only need the name of the ref, you can use a lot simpler
> format string, e.g.
>
>     git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-*authordate' \
>       --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags
>
>     git for-each-ref --count=3 --sort='-taggerdate' \
>       --format='%(refname:short)' refs/tags
>

That's significantly better than what this system does, but sadly the
team that owns it doesn't exactly understand git. Pretty sure they
tend to just use whatever scriptlet they got working, which happens to
be based on log...  I've tried to help them, but generally hasn't been
a successful relationship there.

Regards,
Jake