Re: git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags...

On 2009.11.23 13:01:51 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:

Clone this repo: git://dev.laptop.org/projects/olpc-update -- or just
check visually the recent history here
http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/

git describe origin/master will respond olpc-update-2.16-20-g2d4e4b8
when it is fairly clear to me that it should be
olpc-update-2.19-1g<hash>.

For some reason, recent tags are being ignored -- and cgit even
displays them differently in
http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/ though it is
unclear to me why.

These tags are not 'lightweight', and no tags are signed either.
Passing --tags and --debug has not helped much.

They are lightweight:
$ git cat-file -t olpc-update-2.19
commit

And using --tags "helps" here:
$ git describe 
olpc-update-2.16-20-g2d4e4b8

$ git describe --tags
olpc-update-2.19-3-g2d4e4b8

Bjoern