Hi, On Sat, 7 Jul 2007, Francis Moreau wrote: > I was wondering what does 'git describe origin' command mean on a git > repo. Does it mean ? > > a/ git describe origin/HEAD > b/ git describe origin/master > c/ something else This is completely unrelated to "git describe". It is about naming commits AKA "specifying revisions". You might find the section "SPECIFYING REVISIONS" in Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt especially helpful. FWIW this section is hinted at in the section "Symbolic Identifiers" in Documentation/git.txt. If you're too lazy to read, it's a/. > I also played with git remote and did something silly like: > $ git remote add bob /tmp/dummy # dummy does not exist > $ git remote show bob > fatal: '/tmp/toto': unable to chdir or not a git archive > fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly > ls-remote --heads /tmp/toto: command returned error: 1 > > Maybe the output could be improved to be more readable. The first line is very helpful IMHO: fatal: '/tmp/toto': unable to chdir or not a git archive Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
