[Cc: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote: > 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... _Which_ INIT? In git there can be more than one root commit. In git.git repository mainline (maint, master, next and pu branches) has 4 roots (plus three linear independent branches: man, html and todo, each with its own root). I agree that error description should probably be better: cannot describe _why_. -- 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