On Wednesday 2007 February 07 02:14, Junio C Hamano wrote: > 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 ||. Agreed - the "nearest tag" mode (--abbrev=0) would be broken in that it git-describe would return a tag that doesn't exist. Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIEE andyparkins@xxxxxxxxx - 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