Junio C Hamano wrote: >> would get name-rev to print output in the same format as describe, >> >> $ git describe --contains --all v1.8.3~1 >> tags/v1.8.3~1 >> >> would not strip the leading "tags/". > > If you _know_ v1.8.3 does not appear outside "tags/", this does look > inconsistent, but I do not think the code checks it. Ahd if the > code does not, I am not sure not stripping "tags/" is necessarily a > bad thing, because "--all" allows names to come outside "tags/" > hierarchy. Yeah, you asked for it using --all. > Also how should this interact with v1.8.3-1-g98c5c4a that changed > the rule somewhat so that the common prefix is stripped when we know > the result is not ambiguous? Completely independent of everything else. The condition is "if name-only && prefix == refs/tags", strip that prefix. -- 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