From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 03:28:02 GMT
Subject: Re: git describe weird behaviour
Message-ID: <20101209032802.GA18773@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20101209013323.GJ22105@genesis.frugalware.org>

On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:33:23AM +0100, Miklos Vajna wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 03:03:34PM +0100, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
> > > The patch below implements that in a very rough-and-dirty way. It does
> > > find the 1.4 tag in your repository that you expect. However:
> > 
> > Yes, works here as well:
> > 
> > $ ~/git/git/git describe
> > 1.4pre1-210-g48b67cd
> 
> Any update on this? I still have this patch in my tree to get correct
> git describe output. :)

Sorry, no, I haven't had time to think about it, and I probably won't
for a few more weeks at least.

The patch I posted was giving some really weird results for git.git,
though, so it is definitely not OK for inclusion as-is.

-Peff