Re: git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags...

From: Thomas Rast <trast@student.ethz.ch>
Date: Nov 23, 2009, 12:39 UTC
Message-ID: <200911231339.41290.trast@student.ethz.ch>
In-Reply-To: <20091123123048.GA10172@atjola.homenet>

Björn Steinbrink wrote:

> On 2009.11.23 13:01:51 +0100, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> > 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>.

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> 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

Note that Gits that do not have 7e425c4 (describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often, 2008-10-13; first released in 1.6.1) will prefer the annotated tag over the unannotated ones even with --tags, which explains your observation

> > 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.

at least with the first Git version mentioned:

> > Tested with 1.6.0.6 (Fedora 9 rpm) and 1.6.3.1.26.gf5b223 (on Karmic).

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Thomas Rast
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