How can I 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?

getlatest git-tag git-checkout git
25 Answers
user_35727970

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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git tag --sort=committerdate | tail -1
user_29577410

The problem with describe in CI/CD processes is you can run into the fatal: no tags can describe error.

This will occur because, per git describe --help:

The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit.

If you want the latest tag in the repo, regardless if the branch you are on can reach the tag, typically because it is not part of the current branch's tree, this command will give you the most recently created tag in the entire repo:

git tag -l --sort=-creatordate | head -n 1
user_11588440

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")
user_56194460

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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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.

user_2381900

if your tags are sortable:

git tag --merged $YOUR_BRANCH_NAME | grep "prefix/" | sort | tail -n 1
user_33846090

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 :)

user_4429680
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