From: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags...
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:30:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091123123048.GA10172@atjola.homenet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90911230401sb2b1dd7u21b5d7edefe510eb@mail.gmail.com>
On 2009.11.23 13:01:51 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Clone this repo: git://dev.laptop.org/projects/olpc-update -- or just
> check visually the recent history here
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/
>
> git describe origin/master will respond olpc-update-2.16-20-g2d4e4b8
> when it is fairly clear to me that it should be
> olpc-update-2.19-1g<hash>.
>
> For some reason, recent tags are being ignored -- and cgit even
> displays them differently in
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/ though it is
> unclear to me why.
>
> These tags are not 'lightweight', and no tags are signed either.
> Passing --tags and --debug has not helped much.
They are lightweight:
$ git cat-file -t olpc-update-2.19
commit
And using --tags "helps" here:
$ git describe
olpc-update-2.16-20-g2d4e4b8
$ git describe --tags
olpc-update-2.19-3-g2d4e4b8
Bjoern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-23 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 12:01 git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags Martin Langhoff
2009-11-23 12:30 ` Björn Steinbrink [this message]
2009-11-23 12:38 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-11-23 12:39 ` Thomas Rast
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