From: Sebastian Kuzminsky Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2018 15:39:43 GMT Subject: Re: bug in 'git describe'? Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 9/24/18 4:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Sebastian Kuzminsky writes: > >> I've got two tiny git repos whose commit graphs are identical, but >> where 'git describe' gives different results. ... The histories >> differ only in the timestamps of the commits... > > describe does take the commit timestamps into account, so it is > expected you would get different results out of an otherwise > identically looking graph. Thanks for that confirmation. That behavior seems to me to be different from what the (2.11) manpage says: > it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top > of the tagged object And: > If multiple tags were found during the walk then the tag which has > the fewest commits different from the input commit-ish will be > selected and output. Here fewest commits different is defined as the > number of commits which would be shown by git log tag..input will be > the smallest number of commits possible. All that said, if you consider this "working as expected" then i'm content to let the matter drop. -- Sebastian Kuzminsky