From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:06:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:21148 "EHLO dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net") by ftp.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S28575704AbXK2PGO (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:06:14 +0000 Received: from denk.linux-mips.net (denk.linux-mips.net [127.0.0.1]) by dl5rb.ham-radio-op.net (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id lATF62jM027903; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:06:02 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by denk.linux-mips.net (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id lATF618L027902; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:06:01 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:06:01 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Franck Bui-Huu Cc: Thomas Koeller , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: git problem Message-ID: <20071129150601.GA17764@linux-mips.org> References: <200711281950.46472.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org> <474EA356.3070303@gmail.com> <20071129130903.GB14655@linux-mips.org> <474ECEF1.3090206@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474ECEF1.3090206@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 17644 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:38:41PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote: > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Back to the original topic - git describe fails even with some of the > > very old commits of the lmo tree which are known to be tagged so there > > is something wrong. > > Your issue seems different from Thomas' one. In your case: > > $ git cat-file -t refs/tags/linux-1.3.0 > commit > > So the tag you mentioned is a _lightweight_ tag. These are not > considered by git-describe by default. Ah, thanks solving that miracle. The lightweight tags were all created by the git to CVS converter two years ago. I was planning to replace those with signed tags anyway, another reason to do so. Ralf