From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:10:38 GMT
Subject: Re: Surprising 'git-describe --all --match' behavior.
Message-ID: <xmqq38f0hg0h.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87d2e4d8w7.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergei Organov <osv@javad.com> writes:

> Will something break if it won't helpfully prepend refs/tags/ once
> --all is given?

"describe --all --match 'v*'" will no longer match a tag v1.2.3, and
forces the users to say "describe --match 'refs/tags/v*'", and these
users will probably see it as a new breakage, I would imagine.