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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:26:47 +0200
From: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
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Subject: Re: scripts/setlocalversion: information retrieval about git	repository
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On 25.8.2010 01:03, Michael Prokop wrote:
> Huh? Ok, scripts/setlocalversion uses 'git describe --exact-match':
> 
>   % git describe --exact-match
>   fatal: no tag exactly matches 'd1b113bb028999e82a8528e1484be8c23fb5a7d9'
>   % git branch --contains d1b113bb028999e82a8528e1484be8c23fb5a7d9
>   * master

Git describe only looks at annotated or signed tags (git tag -a/-s) by
default.

Michal