On Wednesday 2010-10-27 21:24, Mathias Lafeldt wrote: >>> 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. > >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. Ah damn, I jumped around with git checkout before, creating detached heads. All right, false alarm, but thanks for the heads up. -- 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