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git-describe fails with "--dirty is incompatible with committishes" if passing HEAD as argument

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FMFrancis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Date
Nov 19, 2012, 15:47 UTC
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Hello,
Inside the kernel repository, I tried this:

$ git describe --dirty --match 'v[0-9]*' --abbrev=4 HEAD fatal: --dirty is incompatible with committishes

If 'HEAD' is removed then git-describe works as expected.
Is that expected ?

Thanks -- Francis

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