Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Jakub Narebski escreveu: >> >> _Which_ INIT? In git there can be more than one root commit. In git.git > > I don't really care, but I would like git-describe to produce something > useful in the absence of tags. The -g<SHA-1> already makes the commit > uniquely identifiable. Then you would script like this: #!/bin/sh git describe "$1" 2>/dev/null || git rev-parse --verify "$1" I do not think it a good idea to make "git-describe" itself do the above, as the user of describe may want to fall back on something other than "rev-parse --verify" after ||. - 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