On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 01:15:22PM +0100, Istvan Pato wrote: > I didn't get back the latest tag by 'git describe --tags --always' if > I have two tags on the same commit. > > // repository ppa:git-core/ppa > > (master)⚡ % cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS" > > (master)⚡ % git --version > git version 2.11.0 > > (master) [1] % git show-ref --tag > 76c634390... refs/tags/1.0.0 > b77c7cd17... refs/tags/1.1.0 > b77c7cd17... refs/tags/1.2.0 > > (master) % git describe --tags --always > 1.1.0-1-ge9e9ced > > ### Expected: 1.2.0 > > References: > > https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/RelNotes-1.7.1.1.txt > > * "git describe" did not tie-break tags that point at the same commit > correctly; newer ones are preferred by paying attention to the > tagger date now. > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8089002/git-describe-with-two-tags-on-the-same-commit > > Thanks, > Istvan Pato Are these lightweight tags? Only annotated tags have a date associated to them, which is where the rel-notes refers to.