Re: More formatting with 'git tag -l'

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:36:58 -0400
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 09:10:18PM +0200, Michał Górny wrote:
> 
> > Would it be feasible to add more formatting options to 'git tag -l'.
> > Right now, it's just '-n' but if more formatting options were added,
> > I think I could use annotated tags as a nice source for
> > autogenerated 'NEWS' file.
> > 
> > What I am most concerned about is the date of last commit contained
> > in the tag. Having an option to format each printed tag and use that
> > information along with tag details in a format string (like the one
> > used by 'git log') would be great.
> 
> You can do something similar with 'git for-each-ref', which is
> probably what you should be using if you are scripting, anyway (as it
> is "plumbing" and guaranteed not to change in future releases).
> Something like:

Thanks, that looks great. The only thing I am missing right now is
a simple %(body) variant which would strip the GPG signature. I'd
really like to avoid establishing a shell oneliner to do that.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny

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