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Getting latest tag on git repository
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get-latest-tag-on-git.sh
# 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
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eggbean commented Dec 6, 2024 •
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@fykaa No problem. I have a lot of GitHub Actions where I was using the GitHub API a lot to retrieve binaries. Maybe you will find them useful to look at as I was using regex to get the latest version.

https://github.com/eggbean/.dotfiles/tree/master/.github/workflows

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eggbean commented Dec 8, 2024 •
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@eggbean I like that idea, but it hits an auth wall for private/enterprise repos

@arderyp You can use the GitHub command to make an authenticated GitHub API request with gh api.

https://cli.github.com/

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