[PATCH] git-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message

Ping Yin· Apr 10, 2008, 14:45 UTC · lore

When "git submodule status" command tries to show the name of the submodule HEAD revision more descriptively, but the submodule repository lacked a suitable tag to do so, it leaked "fatal: cannot describe" message to the UI. Squelch it by using '--always'.

Signed-off-by: Ping Yin <pkufranky@gmail.com>
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 git-submodule.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Show changes to git-submodule.sh +1 −1

diff --git a/git-submodule.sh b/git-submodule.sh
index 56ec353..7674346 100755
--- a/git-submodule.sh
+++ b/git-submodule.sh
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ set_name_rev () {
 		cd "$1" && {
 			git describe "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
 			git describe --tags "$2" 2>/dev/null ||
-			git describe --contains --tags "$2"
+			git describe --contains --tags --always "$2"
 		}
 	) )
 	test -z "$revname" || revname=" ($revname)"

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1.5.5.23.g2a5f

patchgit-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message