git checkout tags/0.1.1 will checkout the FIRST commit tagged with that version, as far as I can tell. How can I programmatically checkout the most recent commit tagged with version 0.1.1? I have made several commits with the same version number, and if I type git describe --tags on master, I get 0.1.1-3-g18562f7. I can execute git checkout tags/0.1.1-3-g18562f7 to get there, but I don't know how to list tags in granular detail so as to be able to find such an automatically generated tag; git tag, git show-ref --tags, etc only show user-defined tags, e.g.

(base) elsphim-4176391:dude holmes5$ git tag                                                   
0.0.1
0.1.0
0.1.1

I don't know where to find a list of the automatically incremented build tags git generates when you don't increment the version number.

CodePudding user response：

There are no automatically generated build tags that you would be able to list with a Git command.

When git describe --tags on master answers with 0.1.1-3-g18562f7, then that means:

• master actually points to commit 18562f7,
• the nearest tag before that commit is 0.1.1,
• and the commit graph at master has 3 commits more than the graph at tag 0.1.1.

In your case that probably means you have this history:

--o--o--A--B--C       <- branch master
     ^
     |
     tag: 0.1.1

You cannot express the names of A, B, C with the tag name alone. You either must use master~2 for A, master~ for B and master for C, or you already know the commit IDs, then you do not need the tag name (nor the branch name) to address the commits.