From: Andreas Ericsson Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:27:30 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/5] describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger date Message-ID: <4BC43902.2040903@op5.se> In-Reply-To: <1271114729-18166-5-git-send-email-spearce@spearce.org> On 04/13/2010 01:25 AM, Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > If more than one annotated tag points at the same commit, use the > tag whose tagger field has a more recent date stamp. This resolves > non-deterministic cases where the maintainer has done: > > $ git tag -a -m "2.1-rc1" v2.1-rc1 deadbeef > $ git tag -a -m "2.1" v2.1 deadbeef > We use this patch-series in our buildsystem, where we just now tagged about 14 projects as stable (on top of an earlier beta tag). Everything's working just fine, so... Tested-By: Andreas Ericsson Thanks a lot, Shawn. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.