From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: "the_jack" <josip@yopmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Retrieving last tag of a working tree
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:28:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812211628.59120.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21071491.post@talk.nabble.com>
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the_jack wrote:
> Precompiler assigns this string to a variable. At this moment, version.h is
> filled by python script that calls "git-describe --tag HEAD" and parses the
> output. This works, but it's not quite reliable. There has to be a better
> way for getting the last tag of current working tree. If I checkout an
> earlier tagged version (0.70), I would need to automatically get 0.70 inside
> version.h
'git describe' is indeed the tool for this. You have not said in what
way it fails, so here's an educated guess:
Up until 7e425c4 (describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight
tags more often, 2008-10-13) which will only be in 1.6.1, using --tags
does not match a lightweight tag if there is also an annotated tag
available.
-Thomas
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-21 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-18 12:07 Retrieving last tag of a working tree the_jack
2008-12-21 14:53 ` Sitaram Chamarty
2008-12-21 15:28 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
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