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  1. @rponte rponte revised this gist Sep 10, 2015. 1 changed file with 0 additions and 2 deletions.
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    # The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit.
    # If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown.
    # Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object
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    # If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown.
    # Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object
    # and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.

    git describe

    # With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the closest tagname without any suffix:
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    # The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit.
    # If the tag points to the commit, then only the tag is shown.
    # Otherwise, it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top of the tagged object
    # and the abbreviated object name of the most recent commit.

    git describe

    # With --abbrev set to 0, the command can be used to find the closest tagname without any suffix:
    git describe --abbrev=0

    # other examples
    git describe --abbrev=0 --tags # gets tag from current branch
    git describe --tags `git rev-list --tags --max-count=1` # gets tags across all branches, not just the current branch