From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:47:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] describe: Make --tags and --all match lightweight tags more often
Message-ID: <48F12CF8.505@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20081010165952.GI8203@spearce.org>

Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
> If the caller supplies --tags they want the lightweight, unannotated
> tags to be searched for a match.  If a lightweight tag is closer
> in the history, it should be matched, even if an annotated tag is
> reachable further back in the commit chain.
> 
> The same applies with --all when matching any other type of ref.
> 

In 99% of the cases, "--all" will then give back the currently
checked out branch unless a revision is specified, right?

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