On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 6:39 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I suspect that "see if the name recorded in the tag object matches
> the name of the ref that stores the tag after refs/tags/" code *is*
> not just verifying what it claims to (which may be good) but also
> unintentionally affecting the output (i.e. "--all" promises that the
> prefix tags/ should be shown). Perhaps the code needs to be fixed
> if that is the case.
What is the course of action then? I wrote up a really dumb 2-line
patch which simply checks if --all was specified and prepends the
output with "tags/".
Good enough? Should we instead update the documentation? Still not
sure, what the behavior _should_ be in the case of annotated tags with
embedded names.
-- >8 --
>From 7243d700aad280b11e647e04ade027c412dde54c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 19:24:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Prepend "tags/" when describing tags with embedded name
Signed-off-by: Daniel Knittl-Frank <knittl89+git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
builtin/describe.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/builtin/describe.c b/builtin/describe.c
index e14e162ef6..54aaf30562 100644
--- a/builtin/describe.c
+++ b/builtin/describe.c
@@ -272,6 +272,8 @@ static void display_name(struct commit_name *n)
}
if (n->tag)
+ if (all)
+ printf("tags/");
printf("%s", n->tag->tag);
else
printf("%s", n->path);
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