Re: bug in 'git describe'?

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 5:41 PM Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That behavior seems to me to be different from what the (2.11) manpage says:

Good opportunity to improve the man page anyway even if Junio is
right. I agree that the section about "search strategy" is a bit
misleading because it does not mention anything about time stuff.

>
> > 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.
-- 
Duy



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