From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 02:14:22 GMT
Subject: Re: describe fails on tagless branch
Message-ID: <7vr6t2g1dt.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <45C92918.8010801@xs4all.nl>

Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl> writes:

> Jakub Narebski escreveu:
>> 
>> _Which_ INIT? In git there can be more than one root commit. In git.git
>
> I don't really care, but I would like git-describe to produce something 
> useful in the absence of tags.  The -g<SHA-1> already makes the commit
> uniquely identifiable.

Then you would script like this:

	#!/bin/sh
	git describe "$1" 2>/dev/null || git rev-parse --verify "$1"

I do not think it a good idea to make "git-describe" itself do
the above, as the user of describe may want to fall back on
something other than "rev-parse --verify" after ||.