From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags...
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:39:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200911231339.41290.trast@student.ethz.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091123123048.GA10172@atjola.homenet>
Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> On 2009.11.23 13:01:51 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > 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>.
[...]
> 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
Note that Gits that do not have 7e425c4 (describe: Make --tags and
--all match lightweight tags more often, 2008-10-13; first released in
1.6.1) will prefer the annotated tag over the unannotated ones even
with --tags, which explains your observation
> > 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.
at least with the first Git version mentioned:
> > Tested with 1.6.0.6 (Fedora 9 rpm) and 1.6.3.1.26.gf5b223 (on Karmic).
--
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
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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
2009-11-23 12:38 ` Martin Langhoff
2009-11-23 12:39 ` Thomas Rast [this message]
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