From: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Koeller <thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: git problem
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:32:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <474EA356.3070303@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711281950.46472.thomas@koeller.dyndns.org>
Thomas Koeller wrote:
> on my machine I have clones of both the linux-mips and
> Linus' kernel tree. I recently found that git-describe
> behaves differently in those trees:
[snip]
> The commit is of course present in both trees. AFAIK the
> 'cannot describe' error shows if there are no tags at all,
> but this is not the case; .git/refs/tags is fully populated.
Not really, it can happen if the commit you're trying to describe and
all of its parents are not tagged.
> Has anybody got a clue as to what may be wrong here?
Is the commit originally part of Linus' tree and was pulled later by
Ralf ?
If so, it probably means that the commits committed by Ralf in his
tree, which are the tagged ones, have no relationship with the ones
pulled from Linus.
Franck
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-29 11:33 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 [this message]
2007-11-29 13:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-11-29 14:38 ` Franck Bui-Huu
2007-11-29 15:06 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-11-29 22:47 ` Thomas Koeller
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