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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
To: Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unusual behavior from git describe
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:55:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGdFq_hYiBoqNmNtBKBqNN4XLLKwxDMHJfAUwdHB_iCcya=DOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+jCPNcOe_dd6fsHDvWtoXEQE+xyd=aaSbfjpjQ8UfyFnvXTfg@mail.gmail.com>

Heya,

On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 23:46, Allan Caffee <allan.caffee@gmail.com> wrote:
> % git describe --tags --dirty
> v0.0.3-dirty
>
> % git status
> # On branch master
> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>
> % git describe --tags --dirty
> v0.0.3

Perhaps git describe does not update the index (properly?), which 'git
status' then does, correcting it?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-29 21:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-29 21:46 Unusual behavior from git describe Allan Caffee
2011-07-29 21:55 ` Sverre Rabbelier [this message]
2011-07-30 13:29   ` Allan Caffee
2011-07-30 13:32     ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-07-30 16:23       ` Allan Caffee
2011-07-31  6:20         ` Jeff King
2011-08-01  1:52           ` [PATCH] describe: Refresh the index when run with --dirty Allan Caffee
2011-08-01  3:51             ` Jeff King
2011-08-02 21:59             ` Junio C Hamano
2011-08-02 22:38               ` Allan Caffee

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