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Re: bug in 'git describe'?

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 25, 2018, 16:10 UTC
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:05 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:41 PM Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com> wrote:
> > That behavior seems to me to be different from what the (2.11) manpage says:
>
> Good opportunity to improve the man page anyway even if Junio is
> right. I agree that the section about "search strategy" is a bit
> misleading because it does not mention anything about time stuff.

If anybody's updating the man page, I think this is the commit that changed git-describe's search strategy: 80dbae03b0 (Chose better tag names in git-describe after merges. - 2007-01-10)

-- Duy

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  1. Sebastian KuzminskySep 24, 2018
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  3. Sebastian KuzminskySep 25, 2018
  4. Duy NguyenSep 25, 2018
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