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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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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson@op5.se
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  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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