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

1 messages from 2008-04-10 to 2008-04-10. Participants: Ping Yin.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13049

## Ping Yin, 2008-04-10 14:45

Subject: [PATCH] git-submodule: Avoid 'fatal: cannot describe' message
Message-ID: <1207838729-5567-1-git-send-email-pkufranky@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1207838729-5567-1-git-send-email-pkufranky%40gmail.com

```
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>
---
 git-submodule.sh |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

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)"
-- 
1.5.5.23.g2a5f

```