From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:18:21 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] describe: Avoid unnecessary warning when using --all
Message-ID: <7vmyeijws2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20081226220201.GA20516@spearce.org>

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> In 212945d4 ("Teach git-describe to verify annotated tag names
> before output") git-describe learned how to output a warning if
> an annotated tag object was matched but its internal name doesn't
> match the local ref name.
>
> However, "git describe --all" causes the local ref name to be
> prefixed with "tags/", so we need to skip over this prefix before
> comparing the local ref name with the name recorded inside of the
> tag object.
>
> Patch-by: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <sop@google.com>
> ---
>  IMHO, suitable for maint...

Yeah, do you prefer to be known as "sop" over "spearce" these days, by the
way?  It does not make a difference to me but I just noticed that Author
and S-o-b won't be matching, so I am just being curious.