From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
To: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
Erez Zilber <erezzi.list@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:47:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F12CF8.505@op5.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081010165952.GI8203@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> If the caller supplies --tags they want the lightweight, unannotated
> tags to be searched for a match. If a lightweight tag is closer
> in the history, it should be matched, even if an annotated tag is
> reachable further back in the commit chain.
>
> The same applies with --all when matching any other type of ref.
>
In 99% of the cases, "--all" will then give back the currently
checked out branch unless a revision is specified, right?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-28 13:48 git-describe doesn't show the most recent tag Erez Zilber
2008-09-28 13:55 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-09-28 14:29 ` Erez Zilber
2008-09-28 14:39 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-09-28 15:03 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-09-28 15:12 ` [PATCH] doc: enhance git describe --tags help Pierre Habouzit
2008-09-29 15:01 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-30 8:39 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-10 16:59 ` [RFC PATCH] describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-10 17:12 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-10-10 18:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-13 14:32 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-13 14:39 ` [PATCH v2] " Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-15 12:54 ` Santi Béjar
2008-10-11 22:47 ` Andreas Ericsson [this message]
2008-10-12 18:00 ` [RFC PATCH] " Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-12 18:13 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-10-12 18:29 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-09-30 9:56 ` [PATCH] doc: enhance git describe --tags help Uwe Kleine-König
2008-09-30 10:09 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-30 19:04 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-09-30 22:14 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-09-30 22:26 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2008-10-15 20:05 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2008-09-28 15:05 ` git-describe doesn't show the most recent tag Erez Zilber
2008-09-28 14:51 ` Andreas Ericsson
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