Re: "git describe --debug" does not show the latest tag for "groff"

On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 4:24 PM Bjarni Ingi Gislason [off-list ref] wrote:

  "git log" on the console shows the tag "1.23.0.rc1" to be the first
one.

By this, do you mean that `git log` shows the tag on the HEAD commit?
Or do you mean that this is the first tag that `git log` emits?  Note
that `git log` walks complex graphs in a funny order by default; you'd
need `--topo-order` (and usually `--graph` too) to see what's really
going on.

  "git log" directed to a file does not show any 'tag' in the commit
lines!

That's normal if you have `--decorate`  set to `auto` (many do: it used
to be sensible ages ago, and I still have that set in my own default git
config).  Tags, in `git log` output,are decorations, and
`auto` means *if going to terminal*.

Chris