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git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag

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BKBenjamin Kircher <bkircher@0xadd.de>
Date
Oct 11, 2021, 08:08 UTC
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<61d28b8e9dd906eba821ecc9ee81bd4ac2374494.camel@0xadd.de>
Hello there,

What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue)

    git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
produces a different result than
    git describe --tags
What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)

I expected both to produce (roughly) the same result. At least, reference the same tag.

What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
    git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
    v0.11.0
and
    git log --format='%(describe)' -n1
    v0.3.0-beta-253-g4ccd023
What's different between what you expected and what actually happened?

git log with %(describe) placeholder does not seem to find the most recent tag as git-describe would do. Is this intended?

[System Info] git version: git version 2.33.0 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh uname: Linux 5.14.10-200.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 7 20:49:53 UTC 2021 x86_64 compiler info: gnuc: 11.2 libc info: glibc: 2.33 $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh

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