How to list all tags along with the full message in git

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I want git to list all tags along with the full annotation or commit message. Something like this is close:

git tag -n5

This does exactly what I want except that it will only show up to the first 5 lines of the tag message.

I guess I can just use a very large number. What is the highest number I can use here? Is it the same on every computer?

UPDATE: I have had much time to think about this, and now I think I don't necessarily want to show the entirety of each message if some of them are extraordinarily long. I didn't really have any particular need that required me to see massive messages (other than my own propensity to be long winded in everything I write, including tag messages). I just didn't like the idea that it was not necessarily going to show me the whole message, as that made me feel like it was hiding information from me. But too much information can also be a bad thing.

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git tag -l --format    contents    or git for-each-ref refs tags  --format    contents    will output full annotation message for every tag  including signature if its signed      contents subject  will output only first line   contents body  will output annotation without first line and signature  useful text only    contents signature  will output only PGP-signature  See more in man git-for-each-ref    Field names    section

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git tag -n99   Short and sweet  This will list up to 99 lines from each tag annotation commit message  Here is a link to the official documentation for git tag   I now think the limitation of only showing up to 99 lines per tag is actually a good thing as most of the time  if there were really more than 99 lines for a single tag  you wouldn t really want to see all the rest of the lines would you  If you did want to see more than 99 lines per tag  you could always increase this to a larger number   I mean  I guess there could be a specific situation or reason to want to see massive tag messages  but at what point do you not want to see the whole message  When it has more than 999 lines  10 000  1 000 000  My point is  it typically makes sense to have a cap on how many lines you would see  and this number allows you to set that   Since I am making an argument for what you generally want to see when looking at your tags  it probably makes sense to set something like this as an alias  from Iulian Onofrei s comment below    git config --global alias tags  tag -n99   I mean  you don t really want to have to type in git tag -n99 every time you just want to see your tags do you  Once that alias is configured  whenever you want to see your tags  you would just type git tags into your terminal  Personally  I prefer to take things a step further than this and create even more abbreviated bash aliases for all my commonly used commands  For that purpose  you could add something like this to your  bashrc file  works on Linux and similar environments    alias gtag  git tag -n99   Then whenever you want to see your tags  you just type gtag  Another advantage of going down the alias path  either git aliases or bash aliases or whatever  is you now have a spot already in place where you can add further customizations to how you personally  generally want to have your tags shown to you  like sorting them in certain ways as in my comment below  etc   Once you get over the hurtle of creating your first alias  you will now realize how easy it is to create more of them for other things you like to work in a customized way  like git log  but let s save that one for a different question answer

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It s far from pretty  but you could create a script or an alias that does something like this   for c in   git for-each-ref refs tags  --format    refname     do echo  c  git show --quiet   c   echo  done

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I prefer doing this on the command line  but if you don t mind a web interface and you use GitHub  you can visit https   github com user repo tags and click on the       next to each tag to display its annotation

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Last tag message only   git cat-file -p   git rev-parse   git tag -l   tail -n1     tail -n  6

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Use --format option  git tag -l --format    tag    subject

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Mark Longair s answer  using git show  is close to what is desired in the question   However  it also includes the commit pointed at by the tag  along with the full patch for that commit   Since the commit can be somewhat unrelated to the tag  it s only one commit that the tag is attempting to capture   this may be undesirable   I believe the following is a bit nicer   for t in  git tag -l   do git cat-file -p  git rev-parse  t   done

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Try this it will list all the tags along with annotations & 9 lines of message for every tag:

git tag -n9

can also use

git tag -l -n9

if specific tags are to list:

git tag -l -n9 v3.*

(e.g, above command will only display tags starting with "v3.")

-l , --list List tags with names that match the given pattern (or all if no pattern is given). Running "git tag" without arguments also lists all tags. The pattern is a shell wildcard (i.e., matched using fnmatch(3)). Multiple patterns may be given; if any of them matches, the tag is shown.

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