From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Rast Subject: Re: git describe is failing Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:02:37 +0200 Message-ID: <200910221702.39452.trast@student.ethz.ch> References: <76c5b8580910220747w709d2b41s4f7b121e421e843c@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: To: Eugene Sajine X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 22 17:03:21 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N0zCD-000078-Fa for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:03:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755887AbZJVPDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755467AbZJVPDL (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:11 -0400 Received: from gwse.ethz.ch ([129.132.178.238]:3057 "EHLO gwse.ethz.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754666AbZJVPDK (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:03:10 -0400 Received: from CAS01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.235) by gws01.d.ethz.ch (129.132.178.238) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:03:13 +0200 Received: from thomas.localnet (129.132.153.233) by mail.ethz.ch (129.132.178.227) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.176.0; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:03:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.27.29-0.1-default; KDE/4.3.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <76c5b8580910220747w709d2b41s4f7b121e421e843c@mail.gmail.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Eugene Sajine wrote: > $ git describe > > gives: > > fatal: cannot describe 'SHA-1' man git-describe: DESCRIPTION The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit. [...] By default (without --all or --tags) git describe only shows annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated tags see the -a and -s options to git-tag(1). If there is no such tag, it refuses to work. Annotate your tags, or try --always. -- Thomas Rast trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch