On Sun, Feb 14 2021, René Scharfe wrote: > Add a format placeholder for describe output. Implement it by actually > calling git describe, which is simple and guarantees correctness. It's > intended to be used with $Format:...$ in files with the attribute > export-subst and git archive. Does it really guarantee correctness though? In "builtin/describe.c" we first walk over the refs and use that to format all N items we're asked about. Under "git log" this is presumably in a race where refs added/deleted during the run of "git log" will change the describe output to be inconsistent with earlier lines. > It can also be used with git log etc., even though that's going to be > slow due to the fork for each commit.
