From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eugene Sajine Subject: Re: git describe is failing Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:06 -0400 Message-ID: <76c5b8580910220810n389d065di349339ab38909ef7@mail.gmail.com> References: <76c5b8580910220747w709d2b41s4f7b121e421e843c@mail.gmail.com> <200910221702.39452.trast@student.ethz.ch> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Rast X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Oct 22 17:10:17 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 1N0zIu-0003yj-Ih for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:10:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755909AbZJVPKF convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755670AbZJVPKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:04 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f202.google.com ([209.85.211.202]:48798 "EHLO mail-yw0-f202.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755489AbZJVPKD convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:10:03 -0400 Received: by ywh40 with SMTP id 40so5526929ywh.33 for ; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:10:07 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=wGL6xNDI6MuiWQGORT7rR7Q1FhUtnS5VUDPk93ORtB0=; b=p4DcqtkMWswbBh97MlVOIiY1rn3YkehGsmrC55XyTDuZgmp1+nzBh9fYf9/eEY6C8C szPVRsTfWaelKjt0hnyLPg8bh2dQOast5ifLktQy8D7geQpDLPZegNEwcBqWWrN+/Rao UiLPOmyCGuhH9CM6GS1t25amCnaOxww9fdCqk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PjtEdhqDRZzdJhYKhsDnJe2xGeJ9qiRBU99F0qfVTn6fnEAKqxm6syWe/QrqqKtGgp VWkI7h3S/rrv7GoSIkpxix2MdZ792i0njF/HaJc4burSIeIlGqtLXb0YXlRX2BZ6Yvuv j3cnNFpPnK43j3kv375vC9u3ZRNwjvmygPEl4= Received: by 10.91.143.18 with SMTP id v18mr11520921agn.71.1256224206894; Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:10:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200910221702.39452.trast@student.ethz.ch> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > man git-describe: > > DESCRIPTION > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 The command finds the most recent tag that is re= achable from a > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 commit. > [...] > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 By default (without --all or --tags) git describ= e only shows > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 annotated tags. For more information about creat= ing annotated > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 tags see the -a and -s options to git-tag(1). > > If there is no such tag, it refuses to work. =C2=A0Annotate 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