From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:55:35 GMT
Subject: Re: Annoated tag not found on git describe
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1010272154210.23548@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
In-Reply-To: <4CC87C61.9060806@debugon.org>


On Wednesday 2010-10-27 21:24, Mathias Lafeldt wrote:
>>> in the linux-manpages repository at 
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages , running git 
>>> describe on the current HEAD (8482c7b836) produces
>>>
>>> fatal: No annotated tags can describe 
>>> '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'.
>>> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
>
>Forget about my first answer.
>
>git-describe shows the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit, but
>80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 isn't reachable when your HEAD is
>at 8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b.

Ah damn, I jumped around with git checkout before, creating detached heads.
All right, false alarm, but thanks for the heads up.