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[PATCH] Fix "git submodule status" output when "git describe" is not possible

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ABAlberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 13, 2008, 00:19 UTC
Message-ID
<1202861986-1159-1-git-send-email-albertito@gmail.com>

When a submodule cannot be described, doing a "git submodule status" on the supermodule produces unnecesary and scary output, for example:

    fatal: cannot describe 'cac575f1bccf0c6942d11962cf4d44ba974d3e8e'
     cac575f1bccf0c6942d11962cf4d44ba974d3e8e megaco/megaco_tipc
Where it should just show:
     cac575f1bccf0c6942d11962cf4d44ba974d3e8e megaco/megaco_tipc

The culprit (after manual inspection of git log) seems to be commit a2cf9f4.

This patch fixes this by making git submodule aware of that behaviour change.

Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@gmail.com>
---
 git-submodule.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index a6aaf40..5e8b84f 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ set_name_rev () {
 		cd "$1" && {
 			git describe "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
 			git describe --tags "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
-			git describe --contains --tags "$2"
+			git describe --contains --tags "$2" 2>/dev/null
 		}
 	) )
 	test -z "$revname" || revname=" ($revname)"
-- 
1.5.4.1.1279.g0d205f-dirty
Next: Junio C Hamano
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  1. Fix "git submodule status" output when "git describe" is not possibleAlberto Bertogli, Feb 13, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoFeb 13, 2008
  3. Alberto BertogliFeb 24, 2008

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