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From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Cc: <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git describe is failing
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:02:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910221702.39452.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8580910220747w709d2b41s4f7b121e421e843c@mail.gmail.com>

Eugene Sajine wrote:
> $ git describe
> 
> gives:
> 
> fatal: cannot describe 'SHA-1'

man git-describe:

DESCRIPTION
       The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
       commit.
[...]
       By default (without --all or --tags) git describe only shows
       annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated
       tags see the -a and -s options to git-tag(1).

If there is no such tag, it refuses to work.  Annotate your tags, or
try --always.

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-22 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-22 14:47 git describe is failing Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 14:59 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-22 15:02 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
2009-10-22 15:10   ` Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 15:44     ` [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 16:40       ` Alex Riesen
2009-10-22 22:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  0:13           ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-23  0:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  0:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  8:34         ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-23 18:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-28 22:10             ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast

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