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From: Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>
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Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:26:23 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Misleading git tags
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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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.