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

2009/11/23 Björn Steinbrink [off-list ref]:

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

Hmmm. I thought a tag with a _message_ was not lightweight.

$ git tag -ln
...
olpc-update-2.16 Release 2.16
olpc-update-2.17 Release 2.17.
olpc-update-2.18 Rlease 2.18.
olpc-update-2.19 Release 2.19.

Argh... I see now - git tag is being helpful and showing the first
line of the commit msg instead of the tag msg, so I thought they were
full tags.

DWIM bites again! ;-(

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

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

Right. Doesn't make a difference with 1.6.0.6 but it does with
1.6.3.1.26.gf5b223



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