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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Joshua Shrader <jshrader83@gmail.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: can git-describe learn first-parent behavior?
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 12:03:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C98830A.70203@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C987C2E.3060001@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Am 9/21/2010 11:34, schrieb Michael J Gruber:
> The earlier tag (in terms of depth) wins, yes.

Does it? Then explain this result:

git describe e5498e8a^2 e5498e8a^1~24 e5498e8a
v1.7.0.7
v1.7.1.1
v1.7.1.1-38-ge5498e8

v1.7.1.1 is 25 commits away, while v1.7.0.7 is a parent (the second).

AFAICS, git-describe does The Right Thing (--first-parent).

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-21 10:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-21  5:58 can git-describe learn first-parent behavior? Joshua Shrader
2010-09-21  9:34 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-09-21  9:35   ` [RFC PATCH] git-describe: introduce --first-parent Michael J Gruber
2010-09-21 10:03   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2010-09-21 11:49     ` can git-describe learn first-parent behavior? Michael J Gruber
2010-09-21 12:00       ` Johannes Sixt
2010-09-21 12:10         ` Michael J Gruber
2010-09-21 12:34           ` Johannes Sixt
2010-09-21 15:26             ` Michael J Gruber
2010-09-21 19:57               ` Joshua Shrader
2010-09-22  6:52                 ` Michael J Gruber
2010-09-22 17:45                   ` Joshua Shrader

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