From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: git problem
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:06:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071129150601.GA17764@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <474ECEF1.3090206@gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 03:38:41PM +0100, Franck Bui-Huu wrote:
> Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Back to the original topic - git describe fails even with some of the
> > very old commits of the lmo tree which are known to be tagged so there
> > is something wrong.
>
> Your issue seems different from Thomas' one. In your case:
>
> $ git cat-file -t refs/tags/linux-1.3.0
> commit
>
> So the tag you mentioned is a _lightweight_ tag. These are not
> considered by git-describe by default.
Ah, thanks solving that miracle.
The lightweight tags were all created by the git to CVS converter two years
ago. I was planning to replace those with signed tags anyway, another
reason to do so.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-29 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-28 18:50 git problem Thomas Koeller
2007-11-28 20:19 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-11-29 11:32 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-29 13:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-11-29 14:38 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-29 15:06 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-11-29 22:47 ` Thomas Koeller
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