Re: describe fails on tagless branch

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 00:40 UTC
Message-ID: <eqb73j$hri$1@sea.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <eqb660$ft7$1@sea.gmane.org>

[Cc: git@vger.kernel.org]

Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:

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> try 
> 
>   git init
>   echo hoi > a
>   git add a
>   git commit -m 'add a' a
>   git describe
> 
> this yields
> 
> 
> [lilydev@haring t]$ git describe
> fatal: cannot describe '3b26396bbb5f18580ffd4bc31f70ef0738ec73d6'
> 
> 
> I would prefer it if an implicit tag INIT was supposed at the start of the
> history, so we'd get
> 
>   INIT-3b2...

_Which_ INIT? In git there can be more than one root commit. In git.git repository mainline (maint, master, next and pu branches) has 4 roots (plus three linear independent branches: man, html and todo, each with its own root).

I agree that error description should probably be better: cannot describe _why_.

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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