Show which git tag you are on?

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I'm having trouble finding out which tag is currently checked out.

When I do: 

git checkout tag1
git branch

I can't seem to find out which tag I'm on. It only logs:

* (no branch)
master

Is it possible to find out which tags are checked out? In the above example, this would be tag1.

git-tag git-checkout git
7 Answers

Here's a fun one for a certain set of use cases. If your repository has versions such as v1.0.0, v1.1.0, v1.1.1 etc, and also shorthand versions such as v1 that point to whatever is the latest v1.x.x, the following will give you a reference to the currently-checked-out commit in relation to the most recent fully versioned tag, with fallbacks if that doesn't work:

git describe --tags --exact-match --match "v*.*.*" \
  || git describe --match "v*.*.*" --tags \
  || git describe --tags \
  || git rev-parse HEAD

So let's say you have the following commits:

* 4444444 (main, origin/main, tag: v2.0.0, tag: v2.0, tag: v2)
* 3333333
* 2222222 (tag: v1.1.0, tag: v1.1, tag: v1)
* 1111111 (tag: v1.0.0, tag: v1.0)
* 0000000

Output of the above command for a few example HEADs:

  • git checkout main -> v2.0.0
  • git checkout 3333333 -> v1.1.0-1-g3333333
  • git checkout 2222222 -> v1.1.0
  • git checkout v1 -> v1.1.0
  • git checkout 0000000 -> 0000000 (full ref)
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