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Re: git tag usability issue: Lightweight vs Annotated confusion for the end user (ex. git describe default)

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Jonathon Mah <me@jonathonmah.com>
Date
Jul 24, 2013, 19:09 UTC
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>         Some git command (ex. git describe) by default only consider 
> annotated tags.
I always add --tags when I call git-describe. Is there any reason this shouldn't become the new default (quickly, before git 2.0 perhaps)? I wasn't able to find any reason for the current behavior with just a little digging.

Jonathon Mah me@JonathonMah.com

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  1. Jonathon MahJul 24, 2013
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