git show "previous tag"

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On Thursday, 28 August 2014 at 05:13:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 8/27/14, 9:47 PM, Andrew Edwards wrote:
>> Anyone here knows how to consistently obtain the previous tag 
>> on git?
>
> Are tags always coming in order? Then it's easy:
>
> git tag | tail -n2 | head -n1
>
>
> Andrei

Not in semver order unfortunately. This will be changed in new 
git version though 
(http://blogs.atlassian.com/2014/08/whats-new-git-2-1/)

Andrew, what is your desired definiton of "prior"? This `git 
abbrev` command finds previos named commit by traversing _commit_ 
history. If it returns v2.066.0-b1 that means that this tag was 
created later in the commit sequence than v2.066.0 (which is not 
surprising)