diff --git a/bin/git-changelog b/bin/git-changelog
index d28a235..6d60b04 100755
--- a/bin/git-changelog
+++ b/bin/git-changelog
@@ -195,17 +195,17 @@ commitList() {
   #
   # Tags look like this:
   #
-  # >git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --date="short" --pretty="format:%h$%x09%ad$%x09%D"
+  # >git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --date="short" --pretty="format:%h$%x09%ad$%x09%d"
   #
-  # ecf1f2b$        2015-03-15$     HEAD, tag: v1.0.1, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master, hotfix/1.0.2
-  # a473e9c$        2015-03-04$     tag: v1.0.0
-  # f2cb562$        2015-02-19$     tag: v0.9.2
-  # 6197c2b$        2015-02-19$     tag: v0.9.1
-  # 1e5f5e6$        2015-02-16$     tag: v0.9.0
-  # 3de8ab5$        2015-02-11$     origin/feature/restore-auto
-  # a15afd1$        2015-02-02$     origin/feature/versionable
-  # 38a44e0$        2015-02-02$     origin/feature/save-auto
-  # 3244b80$        2015-01-16$     origin/feature/silent-history, upstream
+  # ecf1f2b$        2015-03-15$     (HEAD, tag: v1.0.1, origin/master, origin/HEAD, master, hotfix/1.0.2)
+  # a473e9c$        2015-03-04$     (tag: v1.0.0)
+  # f2cb562$        2015-02-19$     (tag: v0.9.2)
+  # 6197c2b$        2015-02-19$     (tag: v0.9.1)
+  # 1e5f5e6$        2015-02-16$     (tag: v0.9.0)
+  # 3de8ab5$        2015-02-11$     (origin/feature/restore-auto)
+  # a15afd1$        2015-02-02$     (origin/feature/versionable)
+  # 38a44e0$        2015-02-02$     (origin/feature/save-auto)
+  # 3244b80$        2015-01-16$     (origin/feature/silent-history, upstream)
   # 85e45f8$        2014-08-25$
   #
   # The most-recent tag will be preceded by "HEAD, " if there have been zero
@@ -217,6 +217,9 @@ commitList() {
   local _tag_regex='^[[:alnum:][:blank:][:punct:]]+/.*'
   while IFS=$'\t' read _ref _date _tag; do
     [[ -z "${_tag}" ]] && continue
+    # strip out tags form ()
+    # git v2.2.0+ supports '%D', like '%d' without the " (", ")" wrapping. One day we should use it instead.
+    _tag="${_tag:2:-1}"
     # trap tag if it points to last commit (HEAD)
     _tag="${_tag##HEAD, }"
     # strip out any additional tags pointing to same commit, remove tag label
@@ -226,7 +229,7 @@ commitList() {
     # add tag to assoc array; copy tag to tag_list_keys for ordered iteration
     tags_list+=( "${_tag}:${_ref}=>${_date}" )
     tags_list_keys+=( "${_tag}" )
-  done <<< "$(git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --date="short" --pretty="format:%h${_tab}%ad${_tab}%D")"
+  done <<< "$(git log --tags --simplify-by-decoration --date="short" --pretty="format:%h${_tab}%ad${_tab}%d")"
   IFS="$defaultIFS"
   unset _tag_regex
   unset _ref _date _tag _tab