Re: [PATCH] describe: output tag's ref instead of embedded name

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Feb 21, 2020, 02:05 UTC

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<xmqqsgj47l0k.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>

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<20200221013357.26795-1-matheus.bernardino@usp.br>

Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br> writes:

>> > Another case that came to my mind is when the user runs `git describe
>> > --abrev=0 HEAD` and v1.0-bob points to HEAD~. In this case, v1.0 will
>> > be displayed without suffix,...
>>
>> In this case, v1.0-1- is followed by the full object name, I think.
>
> I might be doing something wrong, but this is how I tried to test this:...

> Then we cannot directly use the output. I think we can fix this forcing the long
> output for this case as well, which can be done with:

Thanks for a quick fix on top.

 builtin/describe.c  |  2 +-
 t/t6120-describe.sh | 12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index 5e8484f654..f71bddff4a 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static void describe_commit(struct object_id *oid, struct strbuf *dst)
 	}
 
 	append_name(all_matches[0].name, dst);
-	if (abbrev)
+	if (all_matches[0].name->misnamed || abbrev)
 		append_suffix(all_matches[0].depth, &cmit->object.oid, dst);
 	if (suffix)
 		strbuf_addstr(dst, suffix);
diff --git a/t/t6120-describe.sh b/t/t6120-describe.sh
index 16a261c45d..8f35f18c3f 100755
--- a/t/t6120-describe.sh
+++ b/t/t6120-describe.sh
@@ -144,6 +144,18 @@ test_expect_success 'misnamed annotated tag forces long output' '
 	test_cmp expect actual
 '
 
+test_expect_success 'abbrev=0 will not break misplaced tag (1)' '
+	description=$(git describe --abbrev=0 Q^0) &&
+	expr "$description" : "A-0-g[0-9a-f]*$"
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'abbrev=0 will not break misplaced tag (2)' '
+	description=$(git describe --abbrev=0 c^0) &&
+	expr "$description" : "A-1-g[0-9a-f]*$"
+'
+
+exit
+
 test_expect_success 'rename tag Q back to A' '
 	mv .git/refs/tags/Q .git/refs/tags/A
 '