On 10/27/2010 08:19 PM, Mathias Lafeldt wrote: > On 10/27/2010 08:00 PM, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> 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 > > Hi, > > must have been fixed in a later version, as it works for me: > > $ git describe > man-pages-3.29-49-g8409222 > > $ git --version > git version 1.7.3.2 > > -Mathias Forget about my first answer. git-describe shows the most recent tag that is reachable from a commit, but 80786722b116f5002c28e9e0200044f825b236f6 isn't reachable when your HEAD is at 8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b. As git says, there's only an unannotated tag: $ git describe fatal: No annotated tags can describe '8482c7b836a66f874e7dfea9c35fee4a82ad817b'. However, there were unannotated tags: try --tags. $ git describe --tags man-pages-2.25-30-g8482c7b -Mathias -- 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