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

From: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 11, 2021, 08:23 UTC
Message-ID: <732e64ad-0ca0-d384-a09b-55c74479e254@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <61d28b8e9dd906eba821ecc9ee81bd4ac2374494.camel@0xadd.de>

On 11/10/21 15.08, Benjamin Kircher wrote:

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> 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?

I tried to reproduce your issue. I have linux.git shallow repo (master branch pulls from torvalds' mainline tree and stable branches pull from stable tree). HEAD currently points to v5.15-rc5 tag.

The result (note that I use custom-compiled Git):

``` $ /opt/git/bin/git version git version 2.33.0

$ /opt/git/bin/git log -n 1 --format='%(describe)' v5.15-rc5

$ /opt/git/bin/git describe --tags v5.15-rc5 ```

Both results (git log and git describe) are same.

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