Not recognizing latest Git tag

[dhathris]

I have project that I am packaging using setuptools-git-versioning based on Git tags.
I have a staging branch that is stable and a feature/myfeature branch created from staging.
Now staging branch has the existing tag v0.0.0rc1.
And I created a new Git tag on feature/myfeature branch, called v0.0.0b1. Note the this tag is created AFTER v0.0.0rc1 tag on the staging branch.
I run the command python3 setup.py sdist bdist_wheel on the feature branch, and the version of wheel file built is 0.0.0rc1 instead of 0.0.0b1. I am a 100% sure that I am running setup tools on the feature branch.
Here is the snippet for setuptools-git-versioning configuration in my setup.py file:
version_config={ "template": "{tag}", "dev_template": "{tag}", "dirty_template": "{tag}", "version_callback": None, "version_file": None, "count_commits_from_version_file": False, "branch_formatter": None, }, setup_requires=["setuptools-git-versioning"]
My issue here is that setuptools-git-versioning is NOT recognizing the latest Git tag, and I don't understand why.
I need help resolving this issue.

[dhathris]

Upon further investigation, I realized it's because of the command used to retrieve latest git tag, git tag --sort=-version:refname --merged. This command is asking for tags in reverse lexicographical order and hence the result I am observing. Is there a way to provide an option to choose instead to get the chronological ordering of the tags and get the latest tag based on chronological order?

[dolfinus]

Hi.

Could you please check v1.6.0?

[dhathris]

Yes, version v1.6.0 is working in chronological order for tags. Thanks.