CODEWITHSUNDEEP
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Bene
Bene

Reputation: 1281

find highest tag with version number

I would like to checkout the highest version number and checkout that branch.

Currently I am doing:

git checkout $(git describe --tags $(git rev-list --tags --max-count=1))

But when the latest tag was 3.7.1 I will checkout this instead of another version which have the version number 4.0.1.

How can I make sure to checkout the highest version number?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 3044

Answers (1)

iltempo
iltempo

Reputation: 16012

You are able to sort tags by semantic version names:

$ git checkout $(git tag -l --sort -version:refname | head -n 1)

Upvotes: 17

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