From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:17:52 GMT Subject: Re: Git describe question Message-ID: <7v1w1wf42n.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <487BD34F.4080201@gmx.ch> Jean-Luc Herren writes: > Mark Burton wrote: > ... > I don't think people usually say "tag X is on branch Y", excepted > maybe if Y has never been merged anywhere. Specifically, nobody > would say v1.5.6.3 is *on* branch master. But it's part of its > history. v1.5.6.3 is *on* maint, at best. Actually I am somewhat sympathetic to Mark here. Probably what he wants is to describe 10ce020 as v1.5.6-390-10ce020. While that probably is doable by using the first-parent-only traversal, I do not think it is such a good idea. It is not how branches in git are designed to work. As Merlyn always says in #git at freenode, a branch is an illusion, and it is especially true in the presense of fast-forward merge (aka the upstream maintainer asking a subsystem lieutenant to do a merge for him).