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

Björn Steinbrink wrote:

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

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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>.

[...]

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

Note that Gits that do not have 7e425c4 (describe: Make --tags and
--all match lightweight tags more often, 2008-10-13; first released in
1.6.1) will prefer the annotated tag over the unannotated ones even
with --tags, which explains your observation

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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.

at least with the first Git version mentioned:

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Tested with 1.6.0.6 (Fedora 9 rpm) and 1.6.3.1.26.gf5b223 (on Karmic).

-- 
Thomas Rast
trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch