Shawn O. Pearce wrote: >> 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. Actually I very often want to describe with _annotated_ tags only. I have few lightweight tags which are former heads (former branches), few lightweight tags which are branch points or before-merge points, and are _not_ version tags. Although perhaps command line switch (to prefer annotated tags to lightweight tags) would be better... -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - 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