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git describe --contains --abbrev=0 <sha1> doesn't work as expected

Subject: git describe --contains --abbrev=0 <sha1> doesn't work as expected

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Francis Moreau· Oct 25, 2013, 15:56 UTC · lore

Hello,

Basically doing: git describe --abbrev=0 <sha1> gives the closest tag from <sha1>

I would expect adding "--contains" option would give the closest tag containing <sha1> but it seems that --abbrev=0 has no more effect in that case:

$ git describe --tags --contains --abbrev=0 7f285fa78d4b81b8458f05e77fb6b46245121b4e v2.6.35-rc5~14^2~4

Is that expected ?

Thanks

-- 
Francis

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