Re: describe fails on tagless branch

Han-Wen Nienhuys [off-list ref] writes:

Jakub Narebski escreveu:

quoted

_Which_ INIT? In git there can be more than one root commit. In git.git

I don't really care, but I would like git-describe to produce something 
useful in the absence of tags.  The -g<SHA-1> already makes the commit
uniquely identifiable.

Then you would script like this:

	#!/bin/sh
	git describe "$1" 2>/dev/null || git rev-parse --verify "$1"

I do not think it a good idea to make "git-describe" itself do
the above, as the user of describe may want to fall back on
something other than "rev-parse --verify" after ||.