From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
To: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git describe is failing
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:59:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <237967ef0910220759r509775e1oc2e20af90800198c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <76c5b8580910220747w709d2b41s4f7b121e421e843c@mail.gmail.com>
2009/10/22 Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> I have a test repo which I'm playing with. It has about 15 commits and
> one branch only (master) and couple of tags. Somehow it got to a state
> when
>
> $ git describe
>
> gives:
>
> fatal: cannot describe 'SHA-1'
>
> The command is working ok with my other repo. It doesn't seem that the
> test repo is corrupted. I can commit, push and pull, see the history
> with gitk... How can I check or repair it?
>
> Thanks,
> Eugene
Your tags are probably not annotated (lightweight tags), use git
describe --tags.
--
Mikael Magnusson
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-22 14:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-22 14:47 git describe is failing Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 14:59 ` Mikael Magnusson [this message]
2009-10-22 15:02 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 15:10 ` Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 15:44 ` [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 16:40 ` Alex Riesen
2009-10-22 22:26 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23 0:13 ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-23 0:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23 8:34 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-23 18:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-28 22:10 ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast
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