Function getLatestReleaseTagFromGit

npm_modules/cli/src/utils/githubUtils.ts:78–95

* Fallback: resolve tag refs via git ls-remote and return the latest tag by semver. * git ls-remote returns refs sorted by refname (alphabetically), so we parse all tags * and pick the highest semantic version.

(repoUrl: string)

 * and pick the highest semantic version.
 */
async function getLatestReleaseTagFromGit(repoUrl: string): Promise<string> {
  const gitUrl = repoUrl.includes('.git') ? repoUrl : `${repoUrl}.git`;
  const result = await runCliCommand(`git ls-remote --tags --refs ${gitUrl}`, undefined, true);
  const lines = result.stdout.trim().split('\n').filter(Boolean);
  const tags: string[] = [];
  for (const line of lines) {
    const ref = line.split(/\s+/)[1];
    if (ref?.startsWith('refs/tags/')) {
      const tag = ref.slice('refs/tags/'.length);
      if (tag) tags.push(tag);
    }
  }
  if (tags.length === 0) {
    throw new Error('No tags found in repository');
  }
  tags.sort(compareSemverTags);
  return tags[tags.length - 1]!;
}

/** @deprecated Use getLatestReleaseTag for the GitHub "Latest" release; this returns an arbitrary tag from git ls-remote. */
export async function resolveLatestReleaseRef(repoUrl: string): Promise<string> {