Re: git-describe --contains fails on given tree
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> writes:
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> Hi,
>
>
>
> for some reason, git-describe cannot figure out v1.17~15^2^2 in
> the pam_mount tree, despite me being able to actually give
> a description that would fit the contains syntax:
>
> $ git clone
> git://pam-mount.git.sf.net/gitroot/pam-mount/pam-mount
> Initialized empty Git repository in /dev/shm/pam-mount/.git/
> remote: Counting objects: 7261, done.
> remote: Compressing objects: 100% (1819/1819), done.
> remote: Total 7261 (delta 5557), reused 6990 (delta 5348)
> Receiving objects: 100% (7261/7261), 1.40 MiB | 832 KiB/s, done.
> Resolving deltas: 100% (5557/5557), done.
>
> $ cd pam-mount/
> $ git describe --contains v1.17~15^2^2
> fatal: cannot describe '95ce932690dfce8cbe50b6a3a8949e41a54c8966'
>
> (Expected to get back: v1.17~15^2^2)
>
> Why would it not want to return something? Possible bug?
Is v1.17 an *annotated* tag? What does
$ git describe --contains --tags v1.17~15^2^2
return?
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>