How to get the latest tag name in current branch in Git

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What s the simplest way to get the most recent tag in Git   git tag a HEAD git tag b HEAD   git tag c HEAD  git tag   output   a b c   Should I write a script to get each tag s datetime and compare them

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git tag -l ac    tail -n1   Get the last tag with prefix  ac   For example  tag named with ac1 0 0  or ac1 0 5  Other tags named 1 0 0  1 1 0 will be ignored   git tag -l  0-9      tail -n1   Get the last tag  whose first char is 0-9  So  those tags with first char a-z will be ignored   More info  git tag --help   Help for  git tag      git tag -l  lt pattern gt       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      tail -n  lt number gt    display the last part of a file tail -n1   Display the last item      Update  With git tag --help  about the sort argument  It will use lexicorgraphic order by default  if tag sort property doesn t exist      Sort order              defaults to the value configured for the tag sort variable if it              exists  or lexicographic order otherwise  See git-config 1     After google  someone said git 2 8 0 support following syntax   git tag --sort committerdate

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git describe --tags  returns the last tag able to be seen by current branch

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You can execute  git describe --tags   git rev-list --tags --max-count 1  talked here  How to get latest tag name

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git tag --sort -refname   awk  match  0     0-9     0-9     0-9         head -n 1   This one gets the latest tag across all branches that matches Semantic Versioning

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I m not sure why there are no answers to what the question is asking for  i e  All tags  non-annotated included  and without the suffix  git describe --tags --abbrev 0

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Most recent  could have two meanings in terms of git   You could mean   which tag has the creation date latest in time   and most of the answers here are for that question   In terms of your question  you would want to return tag c    Or you could mean  which tag is the closest in development history to some named branch   usually the branch you are on  HEAD   In your question  this would return tag a   These might be different of course   A- gt B- gt C- gt D- gt E- gt F  HEAD                               X- gt Y- gt Z  v0 2           P- gt Q  v0 1    Imagine the developer tag ed Z as v0 2 on Monday  and then tag ed Q as v0 1 on Tuesday   v0 1 is the more recent  but v0 2 is closer in development history to HEAD  in the sense that the path it is on starts at a point closer to HEAD   I think you usually want this second answer  closer in development history   You can find that out by using git log v0 2  HEAD etc for each tag  This gives you the number of commits on HEAD since the path ending at v0 2 diverged from the path followed by HEAD   Here s a Python script that does that by iterating through all the tags running this check  and then printing out the tag with fewest commits on HEAD since the tag path diverged   https   github com MacPython terryfy blob master git-closest-tag  git describe does something slightly different  in that it tracks back from  e g   HEAD to find the first tag that is on a path back in the history from HEAD   In git terms  git describe looks for tags that are  reachable  from HEAD    It will therefore not find tags like v0 2 that are not on the path back from HEAD  but a path that diverged from there

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if your tags are sortable   git tag --merged  YOUR BRANCH NAME   grep  prefix     sort   tail -n 1

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My first thought is you could use git rev-list HEAD  which lists all the revs in reverse chronological order  in combination with git tag --contains  When you find a ref where git tag --contains produces a nonempty list  you have found the most recent tag s

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You could take a look at git describe  which does something close to what you re asking

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This is an old thread  but it seems a lot of people are missing the simplest  easiest  and most correct answer to OP s question  to get the latest tag for the current branch  you use git describe HEAD  Done   Edit  you can also supply any valid refname  even remotes  i e   git describe origin master will tell you the latest tag that can be reached from origin master

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For the question as asked      How to get the latest tag name in the current branch   you want  git log --first-parent --pretty  d   grep -m1 tag    --first-parent tells git log not to detail any merged histories  --pretty  d says to show only the decorations i e  local names for any commits  grep -m1 says  match just one   so you get just the most-recent tag

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What is wrong  with all suggestions  except Matthew Brett explanation  up to date of this answer post    Just run any command supplied by other on jQuery Git history when you at different point of history and check result with visual tagging history representation  I did that is why you see this post      git log --graph --all --decorate --oneline --simplify-by-decoration   Todays many project perform releases  and so tagging  in separate branch from mainline   There are strong reason for this  Just look to any well established JS CSS projects  For user conventions they carry binary minified release files in DVCS  Naturally as project maintainer you don t want to garbage your mainline diff history with useless binary blobs and perform commit of build artifacts out of mainline   Because Git uses DAG and not linear history - it is hard to define distance metric  so we can say - oh that rev is most nearest to my HEAD   I start my own journey in  look inside  I didn t copy fancy proof images to this long post    What is nearest tag in the past with respect to branching in Git   Currently I have 4 reasonable definition of distance between tag and revision with decreasing of usefulness    length of shortest path from HEAD to merge base with tag date of merge base between HEAD and tag number of revs that reachable from HEAD but not reachable from tag date of tag regardless merge base   I don t know how to calculate length of shortest path   Script that sort tags according to  date of merge base between HEAD and tag     git tag          while read t  do            b  git merge-base HEAD  t              echo  git log -n 1  b --format  ai   t           done   sort   It usable on most of projects   Script that sort tags according to number of revs that reachable from HEAD but not reachable from tag     git tag         while read t  do echo  git rev-list --count  t  HEAD   t  done         sort -n   If your project history have strange dates on commits  because of rebases or another history rewriting or some moron forget to replace BIOS battery or other magics that you do on history  use above script   For last option  date of tag regardless merge base  to get list of tags sorted by date use     git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --pretty  format  ci  d    sort -r   To get known current revision date use     git log --max-count 1   Note that git describe --tags have usage on its own cases but not for finding human expected nearest tag in project history   NOTE You can use above recipes on any revision  just replace HEAD with what you want

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If you need a one liner which gets the latest tag name  by tag date  on the current branch   git for-each-ref refs tags --sort -taggerdate --format   refname short  --count 1 --points-at HEAD   We use this to set the version number in the setup   Output example   v1 0 0   Works on Windows  too

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If you want to find the last tag that was applied on a specific branch you can try the following   git describe --tag   git rev-parse --verify refs remotes origin  branch name

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To get the most recent tag  you can do      git for-each-ref refs tags --sort -taggerdate --format    refname   --count 1   Of course  you can change the count argument or the sort field as desired   It appears that you may have meant to ask a slightly different question  but this does answer the question as I interpret it

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git describe --abbrev 0 --tags  If you don t see latest tag  make sure of fetching origin before running that   git remote update

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To get the most recent tag  example output afterwards   git describe --tags --abbrev 0     0 1 0-dev  To get the most recent tag  with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object  amp  more  git describe --tags                0 1 0-dev-93-g1416689  To get the most recent annotated tag  git describe --abbrev 0

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Not much mention of unannotated tags vs annotated ones here   describe  works on annotated tags and ignores unannotated ones    This is ugly but does the job requested and it will not find any tags on other branches  and not on the one specified in the command  master in the example below   The filtering should prob be optimized  consolidated   but again  this seems to the the job   git log  --decorate --tags master  grep   commit  grep  tag       awk   print  NF   sed  s       head -n 1   Critiques welcome as I am going now to put this to use

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The following works for me in case you need last two tags  for example  in order to generate change log between current tag and the previous tag   I ve tested it only in situation where the latest tag was the HEAD   PreviousAndCurrentGitTag  git describe --tags   git rev-list --tags --abbrev 0 --max-count 2   --abbrev 0  PreviousGitTag  echo  PreviousAndCurrentGitTag   cut -f 2 -d      CurrentGitTag  echo  PreviousAndCurrentGitTag   cut -f 1 -d       GitLog  git log   PreviousGitTag     CurrentGitTag  --pretty oneline   sed  s    41            1      It suits my needs  but as I m no git wizard  I m sure it could be further improved  I also suspect it will break in case the commit history moves forward  I m just sharing in case it helps someone

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To get the latest tag only on the current branch tag name that prefixes with current branch  I had to execute the following  BRANCH  git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD   amp  amp  git describe --tags --abbrev 0  BRANCH    grep  BRANCH      Branch master     git checkout master  BRANCH  git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD   amp  amp  git describe --tags  --abbrev 0  BRANCH    grep  BRANCH  master-1448      Branch custom     git checkout 9 4  BRANCH  git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD   amp  amp  git describe --tags  --abbrev 0  BRANCH    grep  BRANCH  9 4-6   And my final need to increment and get the tag  1 for next tagging   BRANCH  git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD   amp  amp  git describe --tags  --abbrev 0  BRANCH    grep  BRANCH   awk -F-   print  NF

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git tag --sort committerdate   tail -1

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Will output the tag of the latest tagged commit across all branches  git describe --tags   git rev-list --tags --max-count 1

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git log --tags --no-walk --pretty  format  d    sed 2q   sed  s       g    sed s             sed   s             IF YOU NEED MORE THAN ONE LAST TAG   git describe --tags sometimes gives wrong hashes  i dont know why  but for me --max-count 2 doesnt work   this is how you can get list with latest 2 tag names in reverse chronological order  works perfectly on git 1 8 4   For earlier versions of git like 1 7     there is no  tag    string in output - just delete last sed call  If you want more than 2 latest tags - change this  sed 2q  to  sed 5q  or whatever you need  Then you can easily parse every tag name to variable or so

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How about this   TAG   git describe   git rev-list --tags --max-count 1    Technically  won t necessarily get you the latest tag  but the latest commit which is tagged  which may or may not be the thing you re looking for

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