Subject: Re: git tag truncates tag list

From: Kevin Daudt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2021 06:45:30 +0100

On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 04:39:20AM +0100, [email-masked] wrote:
> Dear git,
> git tag misses out some tags from this repo here, there seem to be too many to show:
> 
> https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux
> 
> It cuts the list short, losing either the latest ones with simply 
> git tag
>  or the earliest using either 
> git tag  --sort=-creatordate
>   or 
> git tag --sort=-taggerdate
> 
>  Is there some config option somewhere to show the full list?
> 

That sounds like an issue with the pager. Does `git --no-pager tag` show
all tags?

What do the following things return:

  echo $LESS
  echo $GIT_PAGER
  git config core.pager
  git config pager.tag
  
Kind regards, Kevin