From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 06:12:03 GMT
Subject: Re: git describe candidate filtering
Message-ID: <7vodcv3yz0.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071213055746.GV14735@spearce.org>

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

> We only match things that were "added".  So if you don't add a tag
> via add_to_known_names() then git-describe won't return it.
>
> However that's only true for the standard case; for --contains its
> a different story as we are actually passing everything to name-rev.

A good news is that name-rev is supposed to respect the name limiter.