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From
John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date
Jan 18, 2010, 23:37 UTC
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<43d8ce651001181537w667f71b7te7fac56b4f562c30@mail.gmail.com>
Hi all,
Doing:   git describe --contains SHA

on a SHA that is not contained by any tags gives a confusing error message that it cannot describe the SHA. Could this error message be changed please to just say something like "SHA1 is not in any tags."

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