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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Subject: describe fails on tagless branch
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:23:38 +0100
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try 

  git init
  echo hoi > a
  git add a
  git commit -m 'add a' a
  git describe

this yields


[lilydev@haring t]$ git describe
fatal: cannot describe '3b26396bbb5f18580ffd4bc31f70ef0738ec73d6'


I would prefer it if an implicit tag INIT was supposed at the start of the
history, so we'd get

  INIT-3b2...


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 Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xs4all.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen