How to get tags on current commit
GitGit Problem Overview
I have a repository which has multiple tags on the same commit. For example:
commit #3 <--- TAG1 / TAG2 / TAG3
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commit #2 <--- TAG4/ TAG5
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commit #1 <--- TAG6/ TAG7
I'd like to find out what tags are on a particular commit. For example, if I check commit 1, I'd like to get tag 6 and tag 7.
I have tried:
git checkout <commit 1>
git tag --contains
which displayed tags 1-7.
git checkout <commit 1>
git describe --tags HEAD
displayed tag 6 only.
What is the proper way to do this in Git?
Git Solutions
Solution 1 - Git
For completion (thanks to Ciro Santili answer), git tag has got the option --points-at that does exactly what OP is asking.
git tag --points-at HEAD
It does not have the effect of also listing the tags put on forward commits (as Jonathan Hartley stated in his comment regarding git tag --contains).
Solution 2 - Git
I guess maybe git has had some options added since this question was asked, but since it still comes in pretty high on google, I thought I'd add that this way works nicely:
git tag -l --contains HEAD
Or replace HEAD with any other valid commit reference you like.
This will print a newline separated list of tags if the HEAD contains any tags, and print nothing otherwise, so you would get:
TAG6
TAG7
And of course there are lots of nice ways with various other shell tools that you can format that output once you have it...
Solution 3 - Git
Some improvements on William's answer:
git config --global alias.tags 'log -n1 --pretty=format:%h%d'
The output looks like this:
~$ git tags
7e5eb8f (HEAD, origin/next, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master)
~$ git tags HEAD~6
e923eae (tag: v1.7.0)
Solution 4 - Git
git tag --points-at
> --points-at
Solution 5 - Git
This is not ideal, but perhaps helpful:
$ git log -n 1 --decorate --pretty=onelineYou could play around with the format to get exactly what you want.
Solution 6 - Git
This displays the commit id of HEAD, as well as any branches or any tags that also happen to be exactly at HEAD.
git reflog --decorate -1
Sample output:
484c27b (HEAD, tag: deployment-2014-07-30-2359, master, origin/master) HEAD@{0}: 484c27b878ca5ab45185267f4a6b56f8f8d39892: updating HEAD
Solution 7 - Git
Here's a refinement of @JoshLee's answer, which manipulates the output to list only tags (not branches, nor HEAD) and strips the word 'tag:' and decorative punctuation. This is useful if you are scripting something up which needs to find the current tags (e.g. put them in your prompt):
git log -n1 --pretty="format:%d" | sed "s/, /\n/g" | grep tag: | sed "s/tag: \|)//g"
Example output:
$ git log -n 1 --decorate=short
commit a9313...c7f2 (HEAD, tag: v1.0.1, tag: uat, mybranch)
...
$ git log -n1 --pretty="format:%d" | sed "s/, /\n/g" | grep tag: | sed "s/tag: \|)//g"
v1.0.1
uat
Solution 8 - Git
I'm doing git tag -l | grep $(git describe HEAD)
it returns the tag of the latest commit, or nothing if the last commit isn't tagged