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Re: git describe not showing "nearest" tag

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Jed Brown <jed@59a2.org>
Date
May 5, 2013, 09:50 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
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> Is 'master' a descendant of v3.3?  I.e. what does
>
> 	git rev-list master..v3.3
>
> say?

Yes, this shows nothing. Although 'master' is a descendant of v3.3, it is not a --first-parent descendant of anything after v3.0.0.

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