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Re: git describe relative to a given tag pattern

From
Adam Mercer <ramercer@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 6, 2012, 22:18 UTC
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On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 16:10, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Perhaps Git is correct and your HEAD is not a descendant of any tag whose
> name matches the pattern "lal-v*".

Thanks you're right, the tags I was trying to match are on a different branch. Back to the drawing board for this script.

Cheers
Adam
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