{"thread":{"id":"37296","subject":"Odd results with git-describe","startedAt":"2014-08-06T09:18:18Z","lastAt":"2014-08-06T09:18:18Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Björn Steinbrink"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"247315","messageId":"CACPtaxbeB4fjwsKcd7SOzz2yYYUnWUYdaSc3qBoRoSjVxc6Skw@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"37296","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Odd results with git-describe","fromName":"Björn Steinbrink","fromEmail":"bsteinbr@gmail.com","sentAt":"2014-08-06T09:18:18Z","receivedAt":"2014-08-06T09:18:18Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"bsteinbr@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"Hi,\n\nwith rust's git repo -- located at\nhttps://github.com/rust-lang/rust.git -- we see odd results from\ngit-describe for the latest tag.\n\n$ git rev-parse HEAD\n795f6ae829ab1bfd72394a5da9096e2717ec0f62\n\n$ git describe  --debug\nsearching to describe HEAD\nfinished search at 7140d7c52bdf55daf0b978a19706d20c3bf7ee92\n annotated       3627 0.10\n annotated       5929 0.9\n annotated       8581 0.8\n annotated      11686 0.7\n annotated      14540 0.6\n annotated      15230 0.11.0\ntraversed 15232 commits\n0.10-3627-g795f6ae\n\nSomehow it reports that 0.11.0 is missing tons of commits that are in\nHEAD. rev-list disagrees with this:\n\n$ git rev-list 0.11.0.. | wc -l\n1155\n\nThe `SEARCH STRATEGY` section of the manpage says that the commit\nnumbers for describe and rev-list should match, which is not the case\nhere.\n\nBjörn\n"}]}