From: Jed Brown <jed@59a2.org>
Date: Sun, 05 May 2013 09:50:19 GMT
Subject: Re: git describe not showing "nearest" tag
Message-ID: <87y5btah7o.fsf@mcs.anl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <7vmwsaudv9.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> 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.