# git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag 5 messages from 2021-10-11 to 2021-10-11. Participants: Benjamin Kircher, Bagas Sanjaya, Carlo Arenas, Jeff King. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/56680 ## Benjamin Kircher, 2021-10-11 08:08 Subject: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag Message-ID: <61d28b8e9dd906eba821ecc9ee81bd4ac2374494.camel@0xadd.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/61d28b8e9dd906eba821ecc9ee81bd4ac2374494.camel%400xadd.de ``` Hello there, What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your issue) git log --format='%(describe)' -n1 produces a different result than git describe --tags What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) I expected both to produce (roughly) the same result. At least, reference the same tag. What happened instead? (Actual behavior) git log --format='%(describe)' -n1 v0.11.0 and git log --format='%(describe)' -n1 v0.3.0-beta-253-g4ccd023 What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? git log with %(describe) placeholder does not seem to find the most recent tag as git-describe would do. Is this intended? [System Info] git version: git version 2.33.0 cpu: x86_64 no commit associated with this build sizeof-long: 8 sizeof-size_t: 8 shell-path: /bin/sh uname: Linux 5.14.10-200.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Oct 7 20:49:53 UTC 2021 x86_64 compiler info: gnuc: 11.2 libc info: glibc: 2.33 $SHELL (typically, interactive shell): /bin/zsh [Enabled Hooks] ``` ## Bagas Sanjaya, 2021-10-11 08:23 Subject: Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag Message-ID: <732e64ad-0ca0-d384-a09b-55c74479e254@gmail.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/732e64ad-0ca0-d384-a09b-55c74479e254%40gmail.com In-Reply-To: <61d28b8e9dd906eba821ecc9ee81bd4ac2374494.camel@0xadd.de> ``` On 11/10/21 15.08, Benjamin Kircher wrote: > What did you do before the bug happened? (Steps to reproduce your > issue) > > git log --format='%(describe)' -n1 > > produces a different result than > > git describe --tags > > What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior) > > I expected both to produce (roughly) the same result. At least, > reference the same tag. > > What happened instead? (Actual behavior) > > git log --format='%(describe)' -n1 > v0.11.0 > > and > > git log --format='%(describe)' -n1 > v0.3.0-beta-253-g4ccd023 > > What's different between what you expected and what actually happened? > > git log with %(describe) placeholder does not seem to find the most > recent tag as git-describe would do. Is this intended? I tried to reproduce your issue. I have linux.git shallow repo (master branch pulls from torvalds' mainline tree and stable branches pull from stable tree). HEAD currently points to v5.15-rc5 tag. The result (note that I use custom-compiled Git): ˋˋˋ $ /opt/git/bin/git version git version 2.33.0 $ /opt/git/bin/git log -n 1 --format='%(describe)' v5.15-rc5 $ /opt/git/bin/git describe --tags v5.15-rc5 ˋˋˋ Both results (git log and git describe) are same. -- An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara ``` ## Benjamin Kircher, 2021-10-11 08:29 Subject: Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag Message-ID: <39ac5fe17bdf0f486cb8ffd4b8dec6d60acc9244.camel@0xadd.de> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/39ac5fe17bdf0f486cb8ffd4b8dec6d60acc9244.camel%400xadd.de In-Reply-To: <732e64ad-0ca0-d384-a09b-55c74479e254@gmail.com> ``` On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 15:23 +0700, Bagas Sanjaya wrote: > Both results (git log and git describe) are same. Yes. Good one. Absolutely correct. I wasn't able to reproduce that with Linux repository, too. Problem is observed only in some repositories while others seem fine. I was able to reproduce it with a freshly cloned version of: https://github.com/gridscale/gscloud.git BK ``` ## Carlo Arenas, 2021-10-11 12:27 Subject: Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/CAPUEsphLXcCw%3DQj1Rw5ONf2GduQAs62VwkVd3gTt4%3DPLaGkBcg%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <61d28b8e9dd906eba821ecc9ee81bd4ac2374494.camel@0xadd.de> ``` On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 1:10 AM Benjamin Kircher wrote: > produces a different result than > > git describe --tags if the repository you are looking at has non annotated tags (the ones that have no signature or message and that are created by default with `git tag`), then that is expected and explained in the documentation for the '--tags' option you are using. Carlo ``` ## Jeff King, 2021-10-11 16:23 Subject: Re: git log with %(describe) placeholder does not find most recent tag Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/YWRlBLu%2Bst02X7MD%40coredump.intra.peff.net In-Reply-To: ``` On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 05:27:39AM -0700, Carlo Arenas wrote: > On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 1:10 AM Benjamin Kircher wrote: > > produces a different result than > > > > git describe --tags > > if the repository you are looking at has non annotated tags (the ones > that have no signature or message and that are created by default with > `git tag`), then that is expected and explained in the documentation > for the '--tags' option you are using. Yes, that's the case in the example repo he showed. I don't think there is currently a way to convince %(describe) to use "--tags" in the underlying describe command, but it seems like a reasonable extension if somebody is interested in writing it. We already take some options to %(describe), so the syntax is prepared to add more. -Peff ```