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From:	Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
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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.

To make git-describe work, just do:

	$ git describe --tags $(cat .git/refs/tags/linux-1.3.0)
	linux-1.3.0

		Franck