# git describe --contains 2 messages from 2010-01-18 to 2010-01-19. Participants: John Tapsell, Ramkumar Ramachandra. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/22277 ## John Tapsell, 2010-01-18 23:37 Subject: git describe --contains Message-ID: <43d8ce651001181537w667f71b7te7fac56b4f562c30@mail.gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/43d8ce651001181537w667f71b7te7fac56b4f562c30%40mail.gmail.com ``` Hi all, Doing: git describe --contains SHA on a SHA that is not contained by any tags gives a confusing error message that it cannot describe the SHA. Could this error message be changed please to just say something like "SHA1 is not in any tags." ``` ## Ramkumar Ramachandra, 2010-01-19 07:11 Subject: Re: git describe --contains Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20100119T080907-579%40post.gmane.org In-Reply-To: <43d8ce651001181537w667f71b7te7fac56b4f562c30@mail.gmail.com> ``` > Doing: git describe --contains SHA The problem resides in builtin-describe.c:377. It uses cmd_name_rev from builtin- name-rev.c. I'm attempting to rewrite this, and have a describe_contains() - Hopefully, I'll get a patch out by the end of the day. ```