From: Björn Steinbrink <b.steinbrink@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:30:48 GMT
Subject: Re: git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags...
Message-ID: <20091123123048.GA10172@atjola.homenet>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90911230401sb2b1dd7u21b5d7edefe510eb@mail.gmail.com>

On 2009.11.23 13:01:51 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Clone this repo: git://dev.laptop.org/projects/olpc-update -- or just
> check visually the recent history here
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/
> 
> git describe origin/master will respond olpc-update-2.16-20-g2d4e4b8
> when it is fairly clear to me that it should be
> olpc-update-2.19-1g<hash>.
> 
> For some reason, recent tags are being ignored -- and cgit even
> displays them differently in
> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/olpc-update/log/ though it is
> unclear to me why.
> 
> These tags are not 'lightweight', and no tags are signed either.
> Passing --tags and --debug has not helped much.

They are lightweight:
$ git cat-file -t olpc-update-2.19
commit

And using --tags "helps" here:
$ git describe 
olpc-update-2.16-20-g2d4e4b8

$ git describe --tags
olpc-update-2.19-3-g2d4e4b8

Bjoern