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Re: [PATCH] describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger date

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Apr 11, 2010, 02:36 UTC
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<20100411015433.GB23075@spearce.org>
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:
> If more than one annotated tag points at the same commit, use the
> tag whose tagger field has a more recent date stamp.  This resolves
> non-deterministic cases where the maintainer has done:

I think it is a good idea to introduce this tiebreaker to give the listing some degree of stability. And I also notice that you prepared a patch that can easily apply to an older codebase like 1.6.6 maintenance track.

I have anything against this as an incremental and low impact improvement, but at the same time I think we might want to consider adding the tagger date to "struct tag".

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Message 6 of 17 in “git describe bug?”
  1. Dustin SallingsApr 2, 2010
  2. Shawn O. PearceApr 2, 2010
  3. Andreas EricssonApr 6, 2010
  4. Shawn O. PearceApr 11, 2010
  5. describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger dateShawn O. Pearce, Apr 11, 2010
  6. Junio C HamanoApr 11, 2010
  7. Shawn O. PearceApr 11, 2010
  8. 1/5 tag.c: Correct indentationShawn O. Pearce, Apr 12, 2010
  9. 2/5 tag.h: Remove unused signature fieldShawn O. Pearce, Apr 12, 2010
  10. 3/5 tag.c: Refactor parse_tag_buffer to be saner to programShawn O. Pearce, Apr 12, 2010
  11. 4/5 tag.c: Parse tagger date (if present)Shawn O. Pearce, Apr 12, 2010
  12. 5/5 describe: Break annotated tag ties by tagger dateShawn O. Pearce, Apr 12, 2010
  13. Andreas EricssonApr 13, 2010
  14. Thomas RastApr 13, 2010
  15. Shawn O. PearceApr 13, 2010
  16. Junio C HamanoApr 13, 2010
  17. Shawn O. PearceApr 13, 2010

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