On Fri, 16 Oct 2009, Junio C Hamano wrote: > But the thing is, "git describe" without arguments already works on HEAD > and describes it, and people depend on the behaviour. > > I originally thought this _might_ break and hoped it won't be a big issue, > but now I've seen that even the kernel would break (it runs the command > without saying "HEAD"), I do not want to risk breaking other projects I > may not even heard of. Some people might have copied our GIT-VERSION-GEN > (that says "HEAD"), but I would not bet against that many many more people > would have copied the use of "git describe" from the kernel build tree > than from us. OpenOCD is another project that just started using Git and copied describe usage from Linux. Nicolas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html