Hello, > So what, a magic flag to git-describe like: > git-describe --untagged HEAD > 1a8213... > Where --untagged just means "give me back the raw commit SHA-1 if > the input ref(s) aren't tagged"? that is something I would love to live with. But it should also get the primary objective done which is: Get the commit-id in the tar archive. Thomas - 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