Re: git describe fails without tags
- From
Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
- Date
- Jan 26, 2006, 07:44 UTC
- Message-ID
- <20060126074421.GA2941@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
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- <7vek2wws61.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
Hello Junio,
Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes: > > > I wonder if it would be sane to assume an implicit tag for the empty > > repository, s.t. git describe results in > > > > <empty>-62ac6c16 > > > > (whatever name is choosen for <empty>). > > > > Any opinions? > > [...] If the reason you are doing "describe" is to find out an usable > abbreviated name, you could feed the first few hexdigits to "git > rev-parse --verify", lengthening the prefix longer by one until it > says you have a unique prefix [*1*].
Yes, I wrote a script that automatically build git and install it to
${HOME}/usr/stow/git-`git describe HEAD` and then stow(8)s it. Writing
a similar script for sparse cannot use git describe because there are no
tags ...
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> In other words, not particularly interested, although it is
> trivial to implement, like this:
>
> diff --git a/describe.c b/describe.c
> index 4866510..aeaf0fb 100644
> --- a/describe.c
> +++ b/describe.c
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static void describe(char *arg, int last
> return;
> }
> }
> - die("cannot describe '%s'", sha1_to_hex(cmit->object.sha1));
> + printf("%s\n", find_unique_abbrev(cmit->object.sha1, abbrev));
> }
>
> int main(int argc, char **argv)It's a pity your not particularly interested, I like that patch's idea. git describe dies with an error here in a situation where there is the possibility to do something sensible.
BTW, for the sake of consistency, I'd suggest
- die("cannot describe '%s'", sha1_to_hex(cmit->object.sha1)); + printf("g%s\n", find_unique_abbrev(cmit->object.sha1, abbrev));
Best regards Uwe
-- Uwe Zeisberger http://www.google.com/search?q=1+year+divided+by+3+in+seconds