Hi, in the linux-manpages repository at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages , running git describe on the current HEAD (8482c7b836) produces fatal: No annotated tags can describe '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'. However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags. Which seems strange, given there is an annotated tag: (.git/refs/packed-refs) 45aba08f23aea4baf9ff5603cb5ec4ce148be2cc refs/tags/man-pages-3.29 ^80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 ==> object 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 type commit tag man-pages-3.29 tagger Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> 1287508632 +0200 This is man-pages-3.29 commit 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 tree 65ca9b696771fba53902a1342dc982066c9467e0 parent 435070082d2694737825491cc47973626f352645 author Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> 1287508632 +0200 committer Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> 1287508632 +0200 Ready for 3.29 So what caused git 1.7.1 to get confused here? thanks, Jan -- 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