Re: describe fails on tagless branch

On Wednesday 2007 February 07 02:14, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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 ||.

Agreed - the "nearest tag" mode (--abbrev=0) would be broken in that it 
git-describe would return a tag that doesn't exist.


Andy
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