From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:23:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix describe --tags --long so it does not segfault
Message-ID: <7vvdzn4mv3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080703023245.GA31579@spearce.org>

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

> If we match a lightweight (non-annotated tag) as the name to
> output and --long was requested we do not have a tag, nor do
> we have a tagged object to display.  Instead we must use the
> object we were passed as input for the long format display.
>
> Reported-by: Mark Burton <markb@ordern.com>
> Backtraced-by: Mikael Magnusson <mikachu@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
> ---
>
>  Thanks Mikael, the backtrace really made it easy to figure out
>  what the breakage was here.

Thanks.  I'll squash this in and apply to 'maint'.  Perhaps 1.5.6.2
after the 4th holiday.

diff --git a/t/t6120-describe.sh b/t/t6120-describe.sh
index c6be259..2fb672c 100755
--- a/t/t6120-describe.sh
+++ b/t/t6120-describe.sh
@@ -139,4 +139,6 @@ check_describe "test1-lightweight-*" --tags --match="test1-*"
 
 check_describe "test2-lightweight-*" --tags --match="test2-*"
 
+check_describe "test2-lightweight-*" --long --tags --match="test2-*" HEAD^
+
 test_done