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Re: question re tags

From
Carlos Martín Nieto <cmn@elego.de>
Date
Mar 8, 2013, 16:30 UTC
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On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 15:16 +0000, John Stean wrote:
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> 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.
> But when I do a git describe it outputs the first tag along with the
> latest commit. What am I doing wrong?

Those tags are probably lightweight tags, so by default git-describe doesn't take them into account. You can pass the --tags flag to tell it to consider lightweight tags as well.

   cmn
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