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Re: "git describe" documentation and behavior mismatch

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Dec 15, 2017, 19:25 UTC
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Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89@googlemail.com> writes:
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> Forget the above patch. I should compile my code after refactoring ...
>
> Here is the fixed version.
>
> -- >8 --
>
> From 8203bd0ad5baab7024ebff597c9f35a0250d09ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:24:54 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH] Prepend "tags/" when describing tags with embedded name
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@googlemail.com>
> ---
>  builtin/describe.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

I think the code makes sense, but it won't be understandable by those who do not know what you discussed in the original thread.

A proper commit log message, with a new test or two in t6120, would be an appropriate way to fix that.

Care to follow through, along the lines in Documentation/SubmittingPatches?

Thanks.
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> diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
> index e14e162ef6..9da6d85ea3 100644
> --- a/builtin/describe.c
> +++ b/builtin/describe.c
> @@ -271,10 +271,13 @@ static void display_name(struct commit_name *n)
>          n->name_checked = 1;
>      }
>
> -    if (n->tag)
> +    if (n->tag) {
> +        if (all)
> +            printf("tags/");
>          printf("%s", n->tag->tag);
> -    else
> +    } else {
>          printf("%s", n->path);
> +    }
>  }
>
>  static void show_suffix(int depth, const struct object_id *oid)
> -- 
> 2.15.GIT
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