Create git tag only if it maches a pattern

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We have a script that takes the last tag from our git repository and parses it in order to create the version number.

In order to do so, the tag must have a defined pattern (vX.Y.Z).

Is it possible to avoid to create a tag that does not match a specific pattern, in order to avoid distraction errors?

On which platform do you run you git instance ? Github, Gitlab, personnal server? — Thomas Ayoub, Jul 06 '16 at 13:32
It's our work server, running Ubuntu, but I'd like to check name on my local PC, using windows even if I can run linux commands in git bash. — Jepessen, Jul 06 '16 at 13:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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Maybe you can create a git alias of tag command to override/replace original tag command. In alias, you check the tag name.

See here for more details about git alias.

See here for how to pass argument to git alias.

UPDATE:

After some investigation, as this stackoverflow question, you can not override git command, but in that post, provide some methods to bypass this restriction.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:58

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:52

I'd say that you can't do it easily. Here are the places that I've looked:

There is not a single mention on how/what to do to force tag format. I know that Gitlab provides git hooks to force commit message format.

You can take a look at How do I react to new tags in git hooks? and Is there a way to check that a git tag matches the content of the corresponding commit?

Create git tag only if it maches a pattern

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