Re: git describe origin ?

["Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 7/7/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Francis Moreau wrote:
>
> > I was wondering what does 'git describe origin' command mean on a git
> > repo. Does it mean ?
> >
> >    a/ git describe origin/HEAD
> >    b/ git describe origin/master
> >    c/ something else
>
> This is completely unrelated to "git describe". It is about naming
> commits AKA "specifying revisions". You might find the section "SPECIFYING
> REVISIONS" in Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt especially helpful. FWIW
> this section is hinted at in the section "Symbolic Identifiers" in
> Documentation/git.txt.
>
> If you're too lazy to read, it's a/.

nope I'm not. I'll do read it thanks.

>
> > I also played with git remote and did something silly like:
> > $ git remote add bob /tmp/dummy # dummy does not exist
> > $ git remote show bob
> > fatal: '/tmp/dummy': unable to chdir or not a git archive
> > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
> > ls-remote --heads /tmp/dummy: command returned error: 1
> >
> > Maybe the output could be improved to be more readable.
>
> The first line is very helpful IMHO:
>
>         fatal: '/tmp/dummy': unable to chdir or not a git archive
>

yep but the 2 others are just noise, aren't they ?

BTW, shouldn't "git remote add" have complained at first ?

thanks
-- 
Francis