From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <4C56EFAE.2020605@domain.hid> Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:17:50 +0200 From: Gilles Chanteperdrix MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20100802142702.2554C11D922@domain.hid> <4C56DFE5.50209@domain.hid> In-Reply-To: <4C56DFE5.50209@domain.hid> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] Misleading git tags List-Id: Xenomai life and development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Wolfgang Denk Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org 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. -- Gilles.