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git describe oddity: ignoring recent tags...

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 23, 2009, 12:01 UTC
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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.

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