From: Andy Parkins <andyparkins@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:22:54 GMT
Subject: Re: describe fails on tagless branch
Message-ID: <200702070922.57163.andyparkins@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vr6t2g1dt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wednesday 2007 February 07 02:14, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not think it a good idea to make "git-describe" itself do
> the above, as the user of describe may want to fall back on
> something other than "rev-parse --verify" after ||.

Agreed - the "nearest tag" mode (--abbrev=0) would be broken in that it 
git-describe would return a tag that doesn't exist.


Andy
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