How to show git commit using number of commits since a tag

Question

With git describe you can get the number of commits since the last tag. If you only had the tag and the number of commits what is the best way to show the commit t

Answer 1

If you are looking for the number of commits since the last tag, the following worked for me

git rev-list  `git rev-list --tags --no-walk --max-count=1`..HEAD --count