Hi,
I'm working with the GCC Git repo [0] (which was apparently recently
converted from SVN [1]), and I'm trying to find out the most recent tag.
So on the master branch I do:
gcc (master) $ git describe --tags --abbrev=0
warning: tag 'gcc_9_2_0_release' is really 'releases/gcc-9.2.0' here
gcc_9_2_0_release
It took me a while to find out what the warning means, because
'gcc_9_2_0_release' is not in $(git tag -l), and it cannot be used as a
ref either:
gcc (master) $ git show gcc_9_2_0_release
fatal: ambiguous argument 'gcc_9_2_0_release': unknown revision or path not in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions, like this:
'git <command> [<revision>...] -- [<file>...]'
That name is in the tag itself:
gcc (master) $ git show releases/gcc-9.2.0 | head -n3
tag gcc_9_2_0_release
Tagger: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2019-08-12 09:38:59
So my question is: is it the intended behaviour of 'git-describe --tags'
that it outputs tag names that cannot be used as a ref? If so, what is a
good other way to find out the most recent tag?
[0]: git://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git,
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git
[1]: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=gcc.git;a=tag;h=f5b196de86fde51578354ff5f98be6d9c397c8fe
Thanks,
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