Get the list of Git Tags

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Is there a function to get the list of Git tags available in the project.

Saw that there is a gitinfo function, GitInfo, but is it possible to get the tags?

if not how can we get this using any custom function or code

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You may use the GitHub API to query a repository using resources.GetRemote

Here’s a Tips and Tricks Article Paged Rest API with Hugo v0.143.0

There’s a hopefulle comprehensive README and a link to an example implementation GitHub - irkode/hugo-forum at getRemotePaged

For your local repository there’s no such option - I would think of a prebuild step that generates a data file that you may then access in your templates/shortcodes: Data sources

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Thanks for the update, Want to avoid the API call and was looking for something to be done within the local itself

say to execute a code like below

{{ $tags := (os.Exec "git" (slice "tag" "--sort=-creatordate")) }}

but found that os.Exec is not possible, so wanted to know if we can create a custom function/module which can execute this and return the values

say a go function like this… if so how can we call this from HUGO

func GetGitTags() []string {
	cmd := exec.Command("git", "tag", "--sort=-creatordate")
        ....
}
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Run something like this from the command line before each build:

mkdir -p data
git fetch origin --tags
git tag -l --sort=version:refname --format=$'- name: %(refname:short)\n  object: %(objectname)\n  type: %(objecttype)' > data/tags.yaml

In the above, replace origin with the name of the remote (e.g., upstream) if applicable.

Then access the data from your templates using {{ site.Data.tags }}.

The data file will look something like this:

- name: v0.136.0
  object: 1ad28e1e0e1aa06725265bf3f117300d5116143c
  type: commit
- name: v0.141.0
  object: 8fa19b50fa4c6e99d77ca84f795540d6b75e8cc8
  type: commit
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executing arbitrary host commands from Hugo is not possible by design and intention

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do we have a way to run a pre scripts before hugo build (say like what we have in npm)

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No, we do not.

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