From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
To: Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git describe bug?
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 11:31:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100402183147.GA20007@spearce.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0B8BD2B7-E6F9-4EFC-BCD6-2B2E876AD1FC@spy.net>
Dustin Sallings <dustin@spy.net> wrote:
>
> describe does not choose the most recent tag when multiple tags point to a single commit (for example, when an RC release becomes a proper release).
>
> There's a bit of conflict in the documentation between the following:
>
> ``tags with newer dates will always be preferred over tags with older dates''
>
> and the next sentence:
>
> ``If an exact match is found, its name will be output and searching will stop.''
>
> The code does not allow for multiple exact matches, leading to what I would consider incorrect behavior as shown below:
Yes, I've seen this too. IIRC we've actually discussed this in
the past. I can't find the thread (my search skills are sub-par
despite who I work for...). But the general idea if I remember
it right was we wanted to use the older tag, because that tag
came first.
So its probably more a documentation bug than a software bug.
--
Shawn.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-02 18:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-02 17:20 git describe bug? Dustin Sallings
2010-04-02 18:31 ` Shawn O. Pearce [this message]
2010-04-06 9:48 ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-04-11 0:28 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-11 1:54 ` [PATCH] describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger date Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-11 2:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-11 2:40 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-12 23:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] tag.c: Correct indentation Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-12 23:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] tag.h: Remove unused signature field Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-12 23:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] tag.c: Refactor parse_tag_buffer to be saner to program Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-12 23:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] tag.c: Parse tagger date (if present) Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-12 23:25 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger date Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-13 9:27 ` Andreas Ericsson
2010-04-13 9:32 ` Thomas Rast
2010-04-13 14:08 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2010-04-13 19:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-04-13 19:46 ` Shawn O. Pearce
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