How to get the latest tag name in current branch in Git?

Question

What\'s the simplest way to get the most recent tag in Git?

git tag a HEAD
git tag b HEAD^^
git tag c HEAD^
git tag

output:

Answer 1

If you need a one liner which gets the latest tag name (by tag date) on the current branch:

git for-each-ref refs/tags --sort=-taggerdate --format=%(refname:short) --count=1 --points-at=HEAD

We use this to set the version number in the setup.

Output example:

v1.0.0

Works on Windows, too.