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"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> We only match things that were "added".  So if you don't add a tag
> via add_to_known_names() then git-describe won't return it.
>
> However that's only true for the standard case; for --contains its
> a different story as we are actually passing everything to name-rev.

A good news is that name-rev is supposed to respect the name limiter.