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Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag

From
Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 11, 2021, 12:27 UTC
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On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 1:10 AM Benjamin Kircher <bkircher@0xadd.de> wrote:
> produces a different result than
>
>     git describe --tags

if the repository you are looking at has non annotated tags (the ones that have no signature or message and that are created by default with `git tag`), then that is expected and explained in the documentation for the '--tags' option you are using.

Carlo
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