Hi all again,
today another expectation crumbled.
I expected the algo of 'git describe' to be deterministic,
but it happens to return different tags in structurally
identical repositories. These are generated on each run
of a test (and obviously have different dates and thus
commit IDs), and 'git describe' doesn't return the same
tags in all of them.
Is that expected behaviour?
The repos each look like
(commit id and parents truncated to three chars):
538 26d 8f5 (HEAD, origin/r2.4/feature-2, r2.4/feature-2) Merge branch 'r2.4/master' into r2.4/feature-2
26d 20c feature: 1st part
8f5 ac6 (origin/r2.4/master, origin/HEAD, r2.4/master) main: 3rd commit
ac6 20c (tag: r2.4/bl-1) main: 2nd commit
20c (tag: r2.4/bl-0, origin/sidestep) module: initial
So HEAD is two hops away from both tags (bl-0 via 26d and bl-1 via 8f5),
but for one I'd hoped that it always pick bl-1, and especially I'd expect
it to be consistent for a given structure).
Andreas
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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