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Re: describe fails on tagless branch

From
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date
Feb 7, 2007, 01:19 UTC
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<45C92918.8010801@xs4all.nl>
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Jakub Narebski escreveu:
> 
> _Which_ INIT? In git there can be more than one root commit. In git.git

I don't really care, but I would like git-describe to produce something useful in the absence of tags. The -g<SHA-1> already makes the commit uniquely identifiable.

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