From: Santi Béjar <sbejar@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:23:25 GMT
Subject: Re: Feature suggestion: git-hist
Message-ID: <8aa486160807300823w3dfbdff2m4b9821d71779231d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080730170326.6f4f1772@pc09.procura.nl>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 17:03, H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:55:34 +0200, Miklos Vajna
> <vmiklos@frugalware.org> wrote:
>
>> If pure hashes are not friendly enough, you can use something like:
>>
>> git describe $(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- <file>)
>
> What do I miss here?
>
>> git describe $(git rev-list -1 HEAD -- *pm)
> fatal: cannot describe 'c2220c8a544af5cd5419e238eb5f43b1f079ad85'
>

It cannot be described because there is no annotated tag before this
commit. Add --always to show the abbreviated commit as fallback.

Santi