# git describe

1 messages from 2008-06-02 to 2008-06-02. Participants: Michael Dressel.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13766

## Michael Dressel, 2008-06-02 17:25

Subject: git describe
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0806021908210.3330@pollux>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/alpine.LNX.1.10.0806021908210.3330%40pollux

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Hi,

git describe does not seam to apply the pattern given by the --match 
option in case the tag is a soft one. Is that done intentionally?

In addition I wonder if it was possible to introduce an option that would 
show all tags of a given commit, at least when --exact-match is specified 
too?

At the moment I'm using git log --decorate in a script to get the above
result. Part of the script looks something like this:


  		mytags=`git log --pretty=oneline --max-count=1\
  			--decorate $commit\
  		| awk '
/.*\/tags\/V1\..*/ {
  	sub("^.*[(]","")
  	gsub("tag: ","")
  	sub("[)].*","")
  	gsub(" ","")


  	split($0, tl, ",")
  	for (var in tl)
  	{
  		if (tl[var] ~ /refs\/tags/ && tl[var] ~ V1){
  			sub("refs/tags/","",tl[var])
  			print tl[var]
  		}
  	}
}
'`

Since that is quite clumsy. I would like to use git describe which
almost does what I need.

Cheers,
Michael

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