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git describe is failing

From
ESEugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 22, 2009, 14:47 UTC
Message-ID
<76c5b8580910220747w709d2b41s4f7b121e421e843c@mail.gmail.com>
Hi,

I have a test repo which I'm playing with. It has about 15 commits and one branch only (master) and couple of tags. Somehow it got to a state when

$ git describe
gives:
fatal: cannot describe 'SHA-1'

The command is working ok with my other repo. It doesn't seem that the test repo is corrupted. I can commit, push and pull, see the history with gitk... How can I check or repair it?

Thanks, Eugene

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  1. Eugene SajineOct 22, 2009
  2. Mikael MagnussonOct 22, 2009
  3. Thomas RastOct 22, 2009
  4. Eugene SajineOct 22, 2009
  5. describe: when failing, tell the user about options that workThomas Rast, Oct 22, 2009
  6. Alex RiesenOct 22, 2009
  7. Junio C HamanoOct 22, 2009
  8. Nicolas PitreOct 23, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2009
  10. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2009
  11. Thomas RastOct 23, 2009
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 23, 2009
  13. describe: when failing, tell the user about options that workThomas Rast, Oct 28, 2009

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