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From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git describe is failing
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <76c5b8580910220810n389d065di349339ab38909ef7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910221702.39452.trast@student.ethz.ch>

> man git-describe:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>       The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
>       commit.
> [...]
>       By default (without --all or --tags) git describe only shows
>       annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated
>       tags see the -a and -s options to git-tag(1).
>
> If there is no such tag, it refuses to work.  Annotate your tags, or
> try --always.
>
> --
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
>

Thanks! It is working ok.
Although it is probably not the best error handling.
I believe git should fail with some meaningful message in this case...

Thanks,
Eugene

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-22 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-22 14:47 git describe is failing Eugene Sajine
2009-10-22 14:59 ` Mikael Magnusson
2009-10-22 15:02 ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 15:10   ` Eugene Sajine [this message]
2009-10-22 15:44     ` [PATCH] describe: when failing, tell the user about options that work Thomas Rast
2009-10-22 16:40       ` Alex Riesen
2009-10-22 22:26         ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  0:13           ` Nicolas Pitre
2009-10-23  0:28             ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  0:25       ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-23  8:34         ` Thomas Rast
2009-10-23 18:57           ` Junio C Hamano
2009-10-28 22:10             ` [PATCH v2] " Thomas Rast

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