Showing Tags in the Git Log

Showing Tags in the Git Log

by mattaspeake / On / In Miscellaneous

When working with Git, we frequently look at the log to see the last few changes. For example to show the last couple of commits:

~/Development/company/website (master) $ git log -2
commit 584770a00b3a3cd16a24ecc9e7c5f4af95c76354
Author: Matthew Speake <matthew.speake@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Nov 3 09:52:32 2018 +0000

    Adding release package before applying tag

commit 04c6500551abb64753be948f1b9481e1bc430b44
Author: Matthew Speake <matthew.speake@gmail.com>
Date:   Sat Nov 3 09:51:02 2018 +0000

    checkin before deploy

This doesn’t show the tags though, so we can add tags with the --decorate option. Combining this with a --oneline format allows us to focus on on just commit messages and the tags they correspond to:

~/Development/company/website (master) $ git log -2 --decorate --oneline
584770a (HEAD -> master, tag: WEBSITE_RELEASE_0.1.16) Adding release package before applying tag
04c6500 (origin/master, origin/HEAD) checkin before deploy
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