From: Eugene Sajine <euguess@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:10:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git describe is failing
Message-ID: <76c5b8580910220810n389d065di349339ab38909ef7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200910221702.39452.trast@student.ethz.ch>

> man git-describe:
>
> DESCRIPTION
>       The command finds the most recent tag that is reachable from a
>       commit.
> [...]
>       By default (without --all or --tags) git describe only shows
>       annotated tags. For more information about creating annotated
>       tags see the -a and -s options to git-tag(1).
>
> If there is no such tag, it refuses to work.  Annotate your tags, or
> try --always.
>
> --
> Thomas Rast
> trast@{inf,student}.ethz.ch
>

Thanks! It is working ok.
Although it is probably not the best error handling.
I believe git should fail with some meaningful message in this case...

Thanks,
Eugene