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Annoated tag not found on git describe

Subject: Annoated tag not found on git describe

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4 messages between Oct 27, 2010 and Oct 27, 2010.

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Jan Engelhardt· Oct 27, 2010, 18:00 UTC · lore

Hi,

in the linux-manpages repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages , running git describe on the current HEAD (8482c7b836) produces

fatal: No annotated tags can describe '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'. However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.

Which seems strange, given there is an annotated tag:

(.git/refs/packed-refs) 45aba08f23aea4baf9ff5603cb5ec4ce148be2cc refs/tags/man-pages-3.29 ^80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6

==> object 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 type commit tag man-pages-3.29 tagger Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200

This is man-pages-3.29

commit 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 tree 65ca9b696771fba53902a1342dc982066c9467e0 parent 435070082d2694737825491cc47973626f352645 author Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200 committer Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200

    Ready for 3.29

So what caused git 1.7.1 to get confused here?

thanks, Jan

Mathias Lafeldt· Oct 27, 2010, 18:19 UTC · re: Jan Engelhardt · lore

Re: Annoated tag not found on git describe

On 10/27/2010 08:00 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> 
> in the linux-manpages repository at 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages , running git 
> describe on the current HEAD (8482c7b836) produces
> 
> fatal: No annotated tags can describe 
> '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'.
> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
> 
> Which seems strange, given there is an annotated tag:
> 
> (.git/refs/packed-refs)
> 45aba08f23aea4baf9ff5603cb5ec4ce148be2cc refs/tags/man-pages-3.29
> ^80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
> 
> ==>
> object 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
> type commit
> tag man-pages-3.29
> tagger Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200
> 
> This is man-pages-3.29
> 
> commit 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
> tree 65ca9b696771fba53902a1342dc982066c9467e0
> parent 435070082d2694737825491cc47973626f352645
> author Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200
> committer Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200
> 
>     Ready for 3.29
> 
> 
> 
> So what caused git 1.7.1 to get confused here?
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Jan

Hi,

must have been fixed in a later version, as it works for me:

$ git describe man-pages-3.29-49-g8409222

$ git --version git version 1.7.3.2

-Mathias

Mathias Lafeldt· Oct 27, 2010, 19:24 UTC · re: Mathias Lafeldt · lore

Re: Annoated tag not found on git describe

On 10/27/2010 08:19 PM, Mathias Lafeldt wrote:

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> On 10/27/2010 08:00 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> in the linux-manpages repository at 
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages , running git 
>> describe on the current HEAD (8482c7b836) produces
>>
>> fatal: No annotated tags can describe 
>> '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'.
>> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
>>
>> Which seems strange, given there is an annotated tag:
>>
>> (.git/refs/packed-refs)
>> 45aba08f23aea4baf9ff5603cb5ec4ce148be2cc refs/tags/man-pages-3.29
>> ^80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
>>
>> ==>
>> object 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
>> type commit
>> tag man-pages-3.29
>> tagger Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200
>>
>> This is man-pages-3.29
>>
>> commit 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6
>> tree 65ca9b696771fba53902a1342dc982066c9467e0
>> parent 435070082d2694737825491cc47973626f352645
>> author Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200
>> committer Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> 1287508632 +0200
>>
>>     Ready for 3.29
>>
>>
>>
>> So what caused git 1.7.1 to get confused here?
>>
>>
>> thanks,
>> Jan
> 
> Hi,
> 
> must have been fixed in a later version, as it works for me:
> 
> $ git describe 
> man-pages-3.29-49-g8409222
> 
> $ git --version 
> git version 1.7.3.2
> 
> -Mathias

Forget about my first answer.

git-describe shows the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit, but 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 isn't reachable when your HEAD is at 8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b.

As git says, there's only an unannotated tag:

$ git describe fatal: No annotated tags can describe '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'. However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.

$ git describe --tags man-pages-2.25-30-g8482c7b

-Mathias

Jan Engelhardt· Oct 27, 2010, 19:55 UTC · re: Mathias Lafeldt · lore

Re: Annoated tag not found on git describe

On Wednesday 2010-10-27 21:24, Mathias Lafeldt wrote:

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>>> in the linux-manpages repository at 
>>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages , running git 
>>> describe on the current HEAD (8482c7b836) produces
>>>
>>> fatal: No annotated tags can describe 
>>> '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'.
>>> However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags.
>
>Forget about my first answer.
>
>git-describe shows the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit, but
>80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 isn't reachable when your HEAD is
>at 8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b.

Ah damn, I jumped around with git checkout before, creating detached heads. All right, false alarm, but thanks for the heads up.