try git init echo hoi > a git add a git commit -m 'add a' a git describe this yields [lilydev@haring t]$ git describe fatal: cannot describe '3b26396bbb5f18580ffd4bc31f70ef0738ec73d6' I would prefer it if an implicit tag INIT was supposed at the start of the history, so we'd get INIT-3b2... -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - hanwen@xxxxxxxxx - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen - 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