On Tue, Sep 25, 2018 at 6:05 PM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. If anybody's updating the man page, I think this is the commit that changed git-describe's search strategy: 80dbae03b0 (Chose better tag names in git-describe after merges. - 2007-01-10) -- Duy