{"thread":{"id":"33108","subject":"question re tags","startedAt":"2013-03-08T15:16:03Z","lastAt":"2013-03-08T16:30:20Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["John Stean","Carlos Martín Nieto"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"210834","messageId":"25720629.116.1362755762863.JavaMail.User@LANE15-HP","threadId":"33108","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"question re tags","fromName":"John Stean","fromEmail":"john.stean@lane15.co.uk","sentAt":"2013-03-08T15:16:03Z","receivedAt":"2013-03-08T15:16:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"john.stean@lane15.co.uk","avatar":null},"body":"Ive been tagging some commits using tortoise git , for example with \"v1.0\", \"v1.1\" etc. In tortoise git log the tag sits alongside the commit as I expect.\nBut when I do a git describe it outputs the first tag along with the latest commit. What am I doing wrong?\n"},{"id":"210838","messageId":"1362760220.3681.1.camel@centaur.cmartin.tk","threadId":"33108","inReplyTo":"25720629.116.1362755762863.JavaMail.User@LANE15-HP","subject":"Re: question re tags","fromName":"Carlos Martín Nieto","fromEmail":"cmn@elego.de","sentAt":"2013-03-08T16:30:20Z","receivedAt":"2013-03-08T16:30:20Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"cmn@elego.de","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/335443?v=4"},"body":"On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 15:16 +0000, John Stean wrote:\n> Ive been tagging some commits using tortoise git , for example with\n> \"v1.0\", \"v1.1\" etc. In tortoise git log the tag sits alongside the\n> commit as I expect.\n> But when I do a git describe it outputs the first tag along with the\n> latest commit. What am I doing wrong?\n\nThose tags are probably lightweight tags, so by default git-describe\ndoesn't take them into account. You can pass the --tags flag to tell it\nto consider lightweight tags as well.\n\n\n   cmn\n"}]}