Re: git describe fails without tags

> Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> 
> > 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 ...
> > ...
> > 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.
> 
> I think I understand the problem pretty well, and actually I am
> sympathetic to the cause.
> 
> Having said that, I do not agree with the approach of your
> patch.  It makes it inconvenient for scripts to tell describable
> and indescribable revs apart by checking the exit status from
> the command.