How to view the tag description on BitBucket?

[Renato Lima]

When tagging, BitBucket opens a field to add a description to the tag. Where can I view that description after creating the tag?

[Daniil Penkin]

Hello @Renato Lima,

Looks like there's currently indeed no view in Bitbucket UI where you can see tag description after you created it. I'll follow up on this with the team: we might've changed some things around displaying commit metadata in a not very consistent manner.

In a local copy of the repository you can see tags along with their descriptions using the following command:

$ git tag -l -n
tag-name        This is tag description

  Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,
Daniil

[Julius Davies [bit-booster.com]]

To add to Daniil's answer:

The "description" field when adding a tag is equivalent to setting the message on an annotated tag with the command line.  It's identical do running this command ("-a" creates an annotated tag):

git tag -a -m '<tag description>' <tag>

I was not able to see tag descriptions using "git log -l -n".  These commands worked nicely however:

To just see the tag objects themselves:

git for-each-ref --format="%(refname:short) %(taggerdate) %(subject) %(body)" refs/tags

To see the tags alongside the commits they refer to:

git show --tags

Similar to Daniil I could not find any way to surface this information in the Bitbucket Server UI.

[Daniil Penkin]

Similar to Daniil I could not find any way to surface this information in the Bitbucket Server UI.

Not sure if you mistakenly mentioned Bitbucket Server, but I indeed can't find tag messages in Server either. Create tag dialog is similar, i.e. it contains an input field for the tag description, but once created that message is not visible anywhere in UI.

Cheers,
Daniil

[Julius Davies [bit-booster.com]]

My mistake - I did not realize this question was tagged with Bitbucket Cloud.

Daniil - are you sure "git log -l -n" can print the annotated tag messages?  I'm not able to make that work in my environment.

[Daniil Penkin]

This was, in turn, my mistake 😬

I meant git tag -l -n. Will fix it in my answer above. Thanks for surfacing this!

[Minh Chau]

Hi @Daniil Penkin ,

How's it going with displaying the tag description in the Bitbucket Cloud ? Because I still don't see it in the UI yet :( ?

Thanks,

[chandan kumar muduli]

We are also having the same  issue unable to see tag description Bitbucket cloud.

[Emil Mocan]

I want to mention that if your description had many lines you will use something like:

git tag -l -n20

Where 20 is for 20 lines of annotation.

 I used this (notice the space between -n and 20)

git tag -l -n 20

and it gave me no results... ha ha!

[Nicholas Dietz]

Hello, Atlassian!

Is there a feature roadmap? Is this on it?

[David Furtney]

+1

[Alexander Smirnoff]

Four years since the topic was started and the simple feature is not implemented yet... Good job, guys! ;) 

[Alexis Reyes]

Big Sigh. Came to this issue feeling hopeful and this is disappointing for something so basic.

[Paul]

Wow... I thought I was being silly not being able to find this in the UI... couldn't imagine something like this would be missing.

[peterader]

It's honestly disappointing when issues raised so many years ago have still not been addressed. Says a lot about the priorities. I bet the payment system has been refactored 14 times since then.

[Tushar Kurjekar]

Hi,

On a same note, I just wanted to check, Can I use tag description in build pipeline script, are there any default variable available similar to BITBUCKET_TAG. right now we are writing tag value in xyz.txt with the help of BITBUCKET_TAG variable in a similar way I want to write the tag description in xyz.txt

[venkata.rohith]

Hi @Daniil Penkin ,

Issue status on displaying the tag description in the Bitbucket Cloud ? Because I still don't see it in the UI yet :( ?

[Nicholas Williams]

And, indeed, I still do not see tag descriptions in Bitbucket Server, either. There doesn't appear to be any urgency in fixing this issue.

[Iqbal Adi Nurmansyah]

we're in the end of Q2 2024, and still no roadmap for this feature? 

[Nicholas Dietz]

It's been four and a half years waiting with no support for us paying customers. Maybe time to consider if there is better value looking elsewhere?

It works fine on gitlab.