Print the message of a git tag
git, git-tag
Solution
I'm not sure what version of git this requires, but with recent versions you can also do:
git tag -l --format='%(contents)' <tag name>
or
git for-each-ref --format='%(contents)' refs/tags/<tag name>
to get only the tag message by itself, where latter one is some like the base command without `--sort=-version:refname`.
Problem
I need a git command that would output only the message of a given annotated tag. It's almost possible with `git tag -ln`: ``` $ git tag -ln v1.3.7 v1.3.7 Here be annotations ``` It's just that I don't want the tag and whitespace in the beginning, and throwing a regex at this feels like overkill. Is there any built-in flag i could use? I'm using git version 1.8.3.2. Some of the answers at Print commit message of a given commit in git use `git show --format=%B`. I can't seem to restrict output to only the message, neither for commits or tags.