From: Adam Mercer Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:18:06 GMT Subject: Re: git describe relative to a given tag pattern Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vhaz362b8.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 16:10, Junio C Hamano 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