From: Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 16:28:53 GMT
Subject: Re: Commit ID in exported Tar Ball
Message-ID: <817CD103-261C-4D40-9C8F-00B2E14130BE@silverinsanity.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070520161048.GI5015@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>


On May 20, 2007, at 12:10 PM, Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

> Hello,
>
>> git-describe is more human-friendly than a SHA-1...
>
> For me git-describe does the following:
>
>         (thinkpad) [~/work/slides] git-describe --all HEAD
>         heads/master
>
> I don't see how Michael is able to tell from this output what version
> his users is using. Do I miss something? I really do like the patch  
> Rene
> has submitted. And it is exactly what is missing. A unique identifier
> which tells the exact version of the tree the user is using.

For version information it is far more useful to use --tags or no  
options (annotated tags only) instead of --all.

# On git.git's master this morning:
$ git describe HEAD
v1.5.2
$ git describe HEAD^^
v1.5.2-rc3-97-g03f6db0

~~ Brian