On Mon, Jan 13, 2025, at 15:23, André de Castro wrote:
> Checked out a branch, ran "git diff --merge-base <some-annotated-tag> HEAD".
>
> What did you expect to happen? (Expected behavior)
> To see a normal git diff output.
>
> What happened instead? (Actual behavior)
> Didn't get a diff output. Got the following error instead:
> "fatal: --merge-base only works with commits"
This works for me on version 2.48.0. It seems to have been fixed in
2.43.0. You would have to update to a newer version.
It looks like it was fixed in 4adceb5a299 (diff: fix --merge-base with
annotated tags, 2023-10-01).[1] The intent of the error message was to
disallow non-commit-ish like trees:
v2.48.0^{tree}
But it also rejected annotated tags instead of peeling them.
🔗 1: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20231001151845.3621551-1-hi@xxxxxxxxx/
