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bash script to find out largest git tag name

Time：09-01

Say below command list all git tags, how to modify it to get the largest tag?

git tag

Current output is:

    V1.0.0
    V1.0.1
    V1.0.2
    ...
    V1.0.23

I expect the output is V1.0.23 for this example

CodePudding user response：

Have Git sort them for you, by version, descending, and pick just the first one:

git tag --list --sort='-version:refname' | head -n1

Or pipe the tags to a sort that knows version sort (such as GNU sort):

git tag | sort -rV | head -n1