Hi, Using git 2.17.1 in Ubuntu 18.04 I'm seeing some strange behaviour when using "git describe" with the repo at http://github.com/endlessm/linux First to rewind to a recent commit on the eos3.4 branch and observe: $ git reset --hard 282b7f72f11f5617947df941a247b0a286faac35 $ git describe Version_4.15.0-32.35-724859-g282b7f72f11f $ git describe --match 'Version_*' Version_4.15.0-32.35-185-g282b7f72f11f Why is the commit count vastly different when I specify a glob to match the same (annotated) tag? 724859 vs 185. 185 is what I would have expected.. at least this shows 182 commits: $ git rev-list Version_4.15.0-32.35..HEAD Same again with --debug output: $ git describe --debug describe HEAD No exact match on refs or tags, searching to describe annotated 724859 Version_4.15.0-32.35 annotated 117 Version_4.15.0-30.32 annotated 124 Ubuntu-4.15.0-29.31 annotated 142 Ubuntu-4.15.0-28.30 annotated 146 Ubuntu-4.15.0-27.29 annotated 149 Ubuntu-4.15.0-26.28 annotated 152 Ubuntu-4.15.0-25.27 annotated 167 Ubuntu-4.15.0-24.26 annotated 919 Release_3.4.6 annotated 926 Release_3.4.4 traversed 728431 commits more than 10 tags found; listed 10 most recent gave up search at f30048d13c9ea1763af8c8e448d9e91de116c114 Version_4.15.0-32.35-724859-g282b7f72f11f $ git describe --debug --match 'Version_*' describe HEAD No exact match on refs or tags, searching to describe finished search at 2261ba7c40893b3659d8b48a77745bfe79e66526 annotated 185 Version_4.15.0-32.35 annotated 289 Version_4.15.0-30.32 annotated 1100 Version_4.15.0-23.25 annotated 1234 Version_4.15.0-22.24 annotated 1274 Version_4.15.0-20.21 annotated 1813 Version_4.15.0-15.16 annotated 2949 Version_4.15.0-12.13 annotated 3564 Version_4.15.0-10.11 annotated 3607 Version_4.15.0-9.10 annotated 3754 Version_4.15.0-5.6 traversed 3757 commits Version_4.15.0-32.35-185-g282b7f72f11f A similar problem occurs on the current HEAD (773a8ad2c3b6a54993bc88381b509621aac5be4f) of the eos3.4 branch. However in that case, even with the --match arg I get a strange commit count: $ git describe --match 'Version_*' Version_4.15.0-33.36-724860-g773a8ad2c3b6 but I would have expected to see a commit count of ~183: $ git rev-list Version_4.15.0-33.36..HEAD | wc -l 183 Daniel
