From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2018 22:24:08 GMT
Subject: Re: bug in 'git describe'?
Message-ID: <xmqqefdir0tz.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <fd340f7b-61c0-2661-bdca-c239e51bc464@highlab.com>

Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com> 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.