Hello, Inside the kernel repository, I tried this: $ git describe --dirty --match 'v[0-9]*' --abbrev=4 HEAD fatal: --dirty is incompatible with committishes If 'HEAD' is removed then git-describe works as expected. Is that expected ? Thanks -- Francis -- 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