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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git describe weird behaviour
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Miklos Vajna wrote:

> But I think the approach to follow the first parent only would solve the
> problem outlined in the commit message of 80dbae0 as well: I think it's
> pretty rare to tag a commit in a feature branch, then merge it.

Doesn't that happen in linux-2.6 history fairly often (subsystem trees
syncing with upstream)?