While "git describe" behaves as documented, the notion of "most recent tag"
is not really easy to grab, and it's not always the way you want to describe
a commit.
"--first-parent" is the option which answers the question: Which is the
most recent tag on this branch which can be reached from this commit?
("This branch" being defined as "--first-parent" walk.)
I had suggested this before, but the discussion veered off quite a bit:
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/156811
No need to discuss the way "git describe" behaves again ;)
Michael J Gruber (2):
git-describe: introduce --first-parent
describe: document and test --first-parent
Documentation/git-describe.txt | 16 +++++++++++++++-
builtin/describe.c | 8 +++++++-
t/t6120-describe.sh | 7 +++++++
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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