# question re tags

2 messages from 2013-03-08 to 2013-03-08. Participants: John Stean, Carlos Martín Nieto.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/33108

## John Stean, 2013-03-08 15:16

Subject: question re tags
Message-ID: <25720629.116.1362755762863.JavaMail.User@LANE15-HP>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/25720629.116.1362755762863.JavaMail.User%40LANE15-HP

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Ive been tagging some commits using tortoise git , for example with "v1.0", "v1.1" etc. In tortoise git log the tag sits alongside the commit as I expect.
But when I do a git describe it outputs the first tag along with the latest commit. What am I doing wrong?

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## Carlos Martín Nieto, 2013-03-08 16:30

Subject: Re: question re tags
Message-ID: <1362760220.3681.1.camel@centaur.cmartin.tk>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1362760220.3681.1.camel%40centaur.cmartin.tk
In-Reply-To: <25720629.116.1362755762863.JavaMail.User@LANE15-HP>

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On Fri, 2013-03-08 at 15:16 +0000, John Stean wrote:
> Ive been tagging some commits using tortoise git , for example with
> "v1.0", "v1.1" etc. In tortoise git log the tag sits alongside the
> commit as I expect.
> But when I do a git describe it outputs the first tag along with the
> latest commit. What am I doing wrong?

Those tags are probably lightweight tags, so by default git-describe
doesn't take them into account. You can pass the --tags flag to tell it
to consider lightweight tags as well.


   cmn

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