From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Langhoff Subject: git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags... Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:01:51 +0100 Message-ID: <46a038f90911230401sb2b1dd7u21b5d7edefe510eb@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 To: Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Nov 23 13:02:00 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NCXcE-00041B-Vs for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:01:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757237AbZKWMBq (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:01:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757123AbZKWMBq (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:01:46 -0500 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.25]:60473 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757119AbZKWMBp (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Nov 2009 07:01:45 -0500 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so963038eyf.19 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:01:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=Y7QOkGQg+skO/l8S4K6ojyKaNd6+oBzrTK6G46CLsTs=; b=O1ZFLuAUn5rHPmROfG0WoLx23jA+1GjLEKH0OilMcoC0t3RvreNkZ4F1HVnjSr1nQG Otp9f65SG/84k4nOQBIgBHAuo8WDOgkCUowngchGSJZRY0EObnScnoL0sPkmBkls8MPL dIY0OyodZwrUwA3alIFDgrnsERCxSFD1Gw/Jw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=VF3ef3Jw8PlL7oCssDdTd/7CXu3F57U6vQDbyWNFsXGpI8rSy0czy/5pgFYe+noFg+ mKCg1tTwhPJWysciaztXTrrhjGCgCs8EnHT67Fmb80wNhNKxWmKln19uZrBRHM495XW6 ndvJctOGEEzya/cWtNxzk0nBjmv0lW/G2bKNU= Received: by 10.213.23.146 with SMTP id r18mr4747022ebb.79.1258977711082; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:01:51 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Clone this repo: git://dev.laptop.org/projects/olpc-update -- or just check visually the recent history here http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/ git describe origin/master will respond olpc-update-2.16-20-g2d4e4b8 when it is fairly clear to me that it should be olpc-update-2.19-1g. For some reason, recent tags are being ignored -- and cgit even displays them differently in http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/ though it is unclear to me why. These tags are not 'lightweight', and no tags are signed either. Passing --tags and --debug has not helped much. Tested with 1.6.0.6 (Fedora 9 rpm) and 1.6.3.1.26.gf5b223 (on Karmic). m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff