Re: [PATCH] git-describe: Add a --match option to limit considered tags.

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 05:52:29PM +0000, Junio C Hamano wrote:

  I think so, the idea here is that I give prio "0" to tags that don't
match, which unless you pass --all (which basically conflicts with
--match <foo> anyways) means that those are not added to the list of
tags that are considered. So I don't see why it would fail with
--contains.

  That's a patch we "need" at work because we have a repository with
different products that share a _lot_ of code (and we're not confident
with submodules yet to switch) and we use git-describe to embed the
exact version of the code that was shipped to a client. Though it sucks
when the last tag shows another product name :)

  I'd also like to use it in some scripts of mine for debian packaging
where I have quite a lot of private tags and only want to describe tags
that match 'debian-sid*'