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If you’re like me, you wish all Git tags adhered to the Semantic Versioning standard. Unfortunately, Semver is just a convention, so Git tags can basically be any string of text. By default when you use the git tag command, your output will be in alphabetical order. Being a gopher, almost all the projects I work on are tagged according to Semver standards, which means the default output is fairly useless.
In order to print all the Git tags in a project in Semver order, simply run git tag -l | sort -V.
Alternatively, if you’re on at least version 2 of Git, you won’t even need to use the sort command, just run:
git tag -l --sort=version:refname
If you want the latest tags at the top of the output, use -version to inverse the sort:
git tag -l --sort=-version:refname
If you want your global installation of Git to default to Semver sorting, you can use the following command as of Git v2.1+:
git config --global tag.sort version:refname
Examples of Git standard output
Default alphabetical sorting
v0.0.0
v0.0.1
v0.0.12
v0.0.2
v0.1.0
v0.10.0
v1.0.0
v1.1.1
v1.11.0
v1.12.0
v10.0.0
v2.0.0
Semver sorting
v0.0.0
v0.0.1
v0.0.2
v0.0.12
v0.1.0
v0.10.0
v1.0.0
v1.1.1
v1.11.0
v1.12.0
v2.0.0
v10.0.0
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