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From: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git describe is failing
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:59:30 +0200
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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