On 9/24/18 4:24 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
I've got two tiny git repos whose commit graphs are identical, but
where 'git describe' gives different results. ... The histories
differ only in the timestamps of the commits...
describe does take the commit timestamps into account, so it is
expected you would get different results out of an otherwise
identically looking graph.
Thanks for that confirmation.
That behavior seems to me to be different from what the (2.11) manpage says:
it suffixes the tag name with the number of additional commits on top
of the tagged object
And:
If multiple tags were found during the walk then the tag which has
the fewest commits different from the input commit-ish will be
selected and output. Here fewest commits different is defined as the
number of commits which would be shown by git log tag..input will be
the smallest number of commits possible.
All that said, if you consider this "working as expected" then i'm
content to let the matter drop.
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Sebastian Kuzminsky
