From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Misleading git tags
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:26:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1280769983.6700.74.camel@domain.hid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C56EFAE.2020605@domain.hid>
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 18:17 +0200, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> > Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> >> Dear Gilles,
> >>
> >> I noticed that "git describe" does not provide helpful information for
> >> the Xenomai repository.
> >>
> >> For the current code (tagged as v2.5.4) I still get:
> >>
> >> -> git describe
> >> v2.5.1-349-gf8fa381
> >>
> >> Only with the "--tags" option I get the expected result:
> >>
> >> -> git describe --tags
> >> v2.5.4
> >>
> >> The behaviour changes from version to version:
> >>
> >> -> git describe v2.5.0
> >> fatal: No annotated tags can describe 'fddf7831dc53cce70b7196314cbd0b3aec028350'.
> >> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
> >> -> git describe v2.5.1
> >> v2.5.1
> >> -> git describe v2.5.2
> >> v2.5.1-142-g6b3e8f2
> >> -> git describe v2.5.3
> >> v2.5.1-232-g55bf2d3
> >> -> git describe v2.5.4
> >> v2.5.1-349-gf8fa381
> >>
> >>
> >> My recommendation is to always annotate release tags to avoid such
> >> confusion. Thanks.
> >
> > Ok. I annotated 2.5.1 and asked Philippe about it, he told me that he
> > never annotated 2.4 releases, so I stopped annotating them. In fact
> > annotating 2.5.1 was the real mistake, but I guess you are right, I
> > should annotate all of them. Can we change the annotation afterwards?
>
> Actually the 2.4 branch is annotated, except for the two last releases.
>
2.4 was automatically annotated in the process of migrating from svn to
git.
--
Philippe.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-02 17:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-02 14:27 [Xenomai-core] Misleading git tags Wolfgang Denk
2010-08-02 15:10 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2010-08-02 16:17 ` Gilles Chanteperdrix
2010-08-02 17:26 ` Philippe Gerum [this message]
2010-08-02 21:12 ` Wolfgang Denk
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