How to get list of latest tags in remote git?

Question

There are alot of methods to get latest tags when you have local git repo.

But i want to get list of latest tags on remote repo.

I know about "git ls-remote", and everything is fine when you use tags like xyz (where x,y,z are numbers). But when tags looks like "test-xyz" and "dev-xyz" i noticed that large amount of "test" tags will pull out any new "dev" tags, which is not correct.

So, how would you like solve this?

Answer 1

Do you use linux? If so you can use this command

git ls-remote --tags | grep -o 'refs/tags/dev-[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*' | sort -r | head | grep -o '[^\/]*$'

It will show you 10 latest tags (with name dev-xyz )

UPD
You can use this bash script to get latest tags:

#!/bin/bash

TAGS=("dev-[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*" "test-[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*" "good-[0-9]*" "new [0-9][0-9][0-9]")

for index in ${!TAGS[*]}
do
    git ls-remote --tags | grep -o "refs/tags/${TAGS[$index]}" | sort -rV | head | grep -o '[^\/]*$'
done

Just add in array TAGS regular expressions that you want, and you'll get 10 latest tags for every of them. If you want to get more or less tags, just add param -n to head command 'head -n 5' or 'head -n 15'.

Just in case. Save it in folder ~/bin (for example with name git_tags), then add executable permission (chmod +x git_tags), this will allow you to run this bash script from every place (just type git_tags).

Answer 2

some guy told me that command:

git ls-remote -t repo.url.git | awk '{print $2}' | cut -d '/' -f 3 | cut -d '^' -f 1  | sort -b -t . -k 1,1nr -k 2,2nr -k 3,3r -k 4,4r -k 5,5r | uniq

and this is not the best solution, but he opened my eyes on command sort .

but i would like to know other versions.

Answer 3

git ls-remote --tags | awk -F'/' '/[0-9].[0-9].[0-9].*/ { print $3}' | sort -nr | head -n1

Using github api:

curl https://api.github.com/repos/user/repo/tags | jq '.[] .name' | sort -nr | head -n1

These two will get you latest tag, you can increase the list by changing the value at n flag for head pipe. lets say, to get top 10 latest lists head -n10

Answer 4

With Git 2.18 (Q2 2018), git ls-remote learned an option to allow sorting its output based on the refnames being shown.

See commit 1fb20df (09 Apr 2018) by Harald Nordgren ( HaraldNordgren ) .
^{(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 6c0110f , 08 May 2018)}

ls-remote : create ' --sort ' option

Create a ' --sort ' option for ls-remote , based on the one from for-each-ref .
This eg allows ref names to be sorted by version semantics, so that v1.2 is sorted before v1.10 .

So check out those for-each-ref --sort options introduced in Git 2.0 and 2.8 , because they apply now to git ls-remote --sort .