"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> One minor problem that you inherited from the original algorithm
>> is the name priority. If you have an annotated tag A and a
>> lightweight tag b, and ask "git describe --tags" in this graph:
>>
>> ---o---o---o---o---x
>> A b
>>
>> you would still want to describe 'x' with A, not b.
>> Unfortunately you don't (and the original doesn't either).
>
> Actually I think you want to describe it with b. If you ask
> '--tags' then you want the lightweight ones too. In the case above
> the lightweight tag b better describes x as it has more in common
> with x than A has.
The reason why I would run the command with --tags is to cope
with this kind of graph.
o---o---o---x
/
---o---o---o---o---o---y
b A
in order to use lightweight ones as a back-up. Otherwise we
would not have had the "prio" business there.
And I would prefer if the presense of lightweight 'c' tag did
not change how 'y' is described:
o---o---o---x
/
---o---o---o---o---o---y
b A c
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