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From: Michael Dressel <MichaelTiloDressel@t-online.de>
Subject: git describe
Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:25:48 +0200 (CEST)
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Hi,

git describe does not seam to apply the pattern given by the --match 
option in case the tag is a soft one. Is that done intentionally?

In addition I wonder if it was possible to introduce an option that would 
show all tags of a given commit, at least when --exact-match is specified 
too?

At the moment I'm using git log --decorate in a script to get the above
result. Part of the script looks something like this:


  		mytags=`git log --pretty=oneline --max-count=1\
  			--decorate $commit\
  		| awk '
/.*\/tags\/V1\..*/ {
  	sub("^.*[(]","")
  	gsub("tag: ","")
  	sub("[)].*","")
  	gsub(" ","")


  	split($0, tl, ",")
  	for (var in tl)
  	{
  		if (tl[var] ~ /refs\/tags/ && tl[var] ~ V1){
  			sub("refs/tags/","",tl[var])
  			print tl[var]
  		}
  	}
}
'`

Since that is quite clumsy. I would like to use git describe which
almost does what I need.

Cheers,
Michael