From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carlos =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDn?= Nieto Subject: Re: question re tags Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:30:20 +0100 Message-ID: <1362760220.3681.1.camel@centaur.cmartin.tk> References: <25720629.116.1362755762863.JavaMail.User@LANE15-HP> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Stean X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Mar 08 17:37:52 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UE0Im-00037s-RY for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 17:37:49 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934420Ab3CHQhX (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:37:23 -0500 Received: from mx0.elegosoft.com ([78.47.87.163]:48450 "EHLO mx0.elegosoft.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933140Ab3CHQhW (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Mar 2013 11:37:22 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 379 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 08 Mar 2013 11:37:22 EST Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx0.elegosoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C345BDE066; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:31:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from mx0.elegosoft.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx0.elegosoft.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id V1mv2pyVRJUm; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:31:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (p57A1F6E7.dip.t-dialin.net [87.161.246.231]) by mx0.elegosoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8CE64DE062; Fri, 8 Mar 2013 17:31:01 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <25720629.116.1362755762863.JavaMail.User@LANE15-HP> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.3-1 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 15:16 +0000, John Stean wrote: > Ive been tagging some commits using tortoise git , for example with > "v1.0", "v1.1" etc. In tortoise git log the tag sits alongside the > commit as I expect. > But when I do a git describe it outputs the first tag along with the > latest commit. What am I doing wrong? Those tags are probably lightweight tags, so by default git-describe doesn't take them into account. You can pass the --tags flag to tell it to consider lightweight tags as well. cmn