From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:31:20 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] git describe without refs distinguishes dirty working tree
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0910162028190.21739@xanadu.home>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdifq6vw.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> But the thing is, "git describe" without arguments already works on HEAD
> and describes it, and people depend on the behaviour.
> 
> I originally thought this _might_ break and hoped it won't be a big issue,
> but now I've seen that even the kernel would break (it runs the command
> without saying "HEAD"), I do not want to risk breaking other projects I
> may not even heard of.  Some people might have copied our GIT-VERSION-GEN
> (that says "HEAD"), but I would not bet against that many many more people
> would have copied the use of "git describe" from the kernel build tree
> than from us.

OpenOCD is another project that just started using Git and copied 
describe usage from Linux.


Nicolas