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From: "=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Santi_B=E9jar?=" <sbejar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: git-hist
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:23:25 +0200
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 17:03, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:55:34 +0200, Miklos Vajna
> <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
>
>> If pure hashes are not friendly enough, you can use something like:
>>
>> git describe $(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- <file>)
>
> What do I miss here?
>
>> git describe $(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- *pm)
> fatal: cannot describe 'c2220c8a544af5cd5419e238eb5f43b1f079ad85'
>

It cannot be described because there is no annotated tag before this
commit. Add --always to show the abbreviated commit as fallback.

Santi