Andreas Ericsson <ae@xxxxxx> wrote: > Right now the behaviour is inconsistent. ... > So as you can see, something else is going on. Both tags here are > stashed as loose objects and both refs are unpacked. Its the order the names were iterated out of the directory by readdir(). Or the order they were sorted by lexographical ordering during for_each_ref(). I can't remember if for_each_ref() sorts the items before processing. But either describe uses the first item it found for a given commit if they have the same priority. There's no notion of date being factored into the decision of which tag to keep. I'll work up a patch right now. -- Shawn. -- 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