Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Jan 12, 2007, 18:16 UTC
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- <eo8j8o$ahq$1@sea.gmane.org>
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- <20070111100800.GB28309@spearce.org>
Shawn O. Pearce wrote:
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>> One minor problem that you inherited from the original algorithm >> is the name priority. If you have an annotated tag A and a >> lightweight tag b, and ask "git describe --tags" in this graph: >> >> ---o---o---o---o---x >> A b >> >> you would still want to describe 'x' with A, not b. >> Unfortunately you don't (and the original doesn't either). > > Actually I think you want to describe it with b. If you ask > '--tags' then you want the lightweight ones too. In the case above > the lightweight tag b better describes x as it has more in common > with x than A has.
Actually I very often want to describe with _annotated_ tags only. I have few lightweight tags which are former heads (former branches), few lightweight tags which are branch points or before-merge points, and are _not_ version tags.
Although perhaps command line switch (to prefer annotated tags to lightweight tags) would be better...
-- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git