From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 03:08:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Teach git-describe --long to output always the long format
Message-ID: <7vwsotpwbr.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080225023634.GK8410@spearce.org>

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

>> +		else
>> +			printf("%s-0-g%s\n", n->path,
>> +				find_unique_abbrev(cmit->object.sha1, abbrev));
>
> Is this really that useful?  Where is having the tag and the commit
> SHA-1 both useful?

I had the same question.  The only place that I find this could
be useful is when you tag, build and install, and then find
glitches before pushing the results out and rewind, rebuild and
re-tag.  I unfortunately have this issue almost all the time.

But even then, I would probably not rely on this patch.