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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: git describe relative to a given tag pattern
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:10:19 -0800
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Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com> writes:

> $ git describe --match=lal-v* HEAD
> fatal: No tags can describe 'cee13cbb25d0fa38f6e3bc6622bc751ebf35d2f0'.

Perhaps Git is correct and your HEAD is not a descendant of any tag whose
name matches the pattern "lal-v*".

Here is how people can mimic the situation:

	$ git checkout v1.7.6~20
        $ git describe --match='v1.7.*' HEAD
        v1.7.6-rc0-3-g6c92972
        $ git describe --match='v1.7.[7-9]*' HEAD
        fatal: No tags can describe '6c92972d7f5ab247a8cab5e4b88cb281bf201970'.
	Try --always, or create some tags.