From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: describe fails on tagless branch Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2007 09:22:54 +0000 Message-ID: <200702070922.57163.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <45C92918.8010801@xs4all.nl> <7vr6t2g1dt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , hanwen@xs4all.nl To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 07 10:23:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HEj1E-00074i-P7 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:23:13 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161054AbXBGJXJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 04:23:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161055AbXBGJXJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 04:23:09 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:59719 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161054AbXBGJXH (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Feb 2007 04:23:07 -0500 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so130029uga for ; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:23:06 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Ke5jdE5lE6EozouANqQXRz7rG7Pn1wJohQZwkZyvYorXNYJDubINCiFArJWPhxut8whu/ZEShaSBD/14le7wWwmHKhXSPVCjsAqJ3kSERJ1znzmsn+yGKRWTbK39o0BUi2bLB68ZZKsc1Rds30LpeuPuDMqYRd4eiitw33bgLiI= Received: by 10.82.114.3 with SMTP id m3mr355607buc.1170840182167; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:23:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from davejones ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b35sm843257ugd.2007.02.07.01.22.59; Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:22:59 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 In-Reply-To: <7vr6t2g1dt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wednesday 2007 February 07 02:14, Junio C Hamano wrote: > I do not think it a good idea to make "git-describe" itself do > the above, as the user of describe may want to fall back on > something other than "rev-parse --verify" after ||. Agreed - the "nearest tag" mode (--abbrev=0) would be broken in that it git-describe would return a tag that doesn't exist. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@gmail.com